[Opensim-dev] Thoughts....

[The Burnman]

Hello Terry,

My concerns are with what I have quoted below.  As a content creator, I am
concerned with the lack of Intellectual Property rights protection which
client side inventory would pose.  Why bother to create content if it is
going to get stolen and redistributed?  You will see a lot less in the way
of quality content, since many people use their content creations as a
source of revenue.

I am not sure how the developers feel about this, but as someone who relies
on the ability to set permissions to protect my IP, I would not like to see
client side inventory asset storage.  Now, if the option to restrict content
to remain on the server and NOT be stored locally were available, that would
be fine with me.  That would allow content creators to decide for themselves
how their content is distributed.  Of course, items flagged as server side
only would not be able to move from grid to grid.

It's an interesting problem to solve.


On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Terry Ford <terry at trades.net> wrote:

> How hard would it be to make the VoiceChat, TextChat, friends list, and
> inventory all be handled on the client's side?
>
> If these tasks were handled on the client side then it would seem
> possible to:
>
> 1. Allow a user to carry inventory with them from world to world.
> Obviously some worlds may not be compatible with the user's specific
> inventory item, in this case the user would be unable to use the item in
> that particular world.
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