[Opensim-dev] Thoughts....

[dr scofield]

Terry Ford wrote:
> Hi Burnman,
> I can see where your concern is coming from and I agree that content 
> creators will indeed need some sort of protection.. maybe encryption of 
> the data when uploaded to the client inventory would be a possibility.
won't work. that's going down the DRM route. DRM is not just not 
working: core fallacy of DRM: you want to keep content secret from the 
user and at the same time want the user to display it. does not work.

    cheers,
    dr scofield

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