[Opensim-dev] Thoughts....

[The Burnman]

Well said.

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:39 PM, dan miller <danbmil99 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I think that's a rather naive belief.  My assumption is that there will be
> share-the-art, creative-commons oriented artists (Radiohead?  tho note
> they
> played the commercial game long enough to build a little nest-egg..)
>
> There will also be corporate media moguls, Britney Spears, and things like
> fashion and architecture where the art/commerce divide is much more
> towards
> the commercial side.  I believe there is a place for some sort of
> permissions system; I'm just technically savvy enough to know that it is
> unenforceable in the long term.
>
> I am not one of those anti-DRM zealots who believes that it is morally
> wrong
> to try to sell media with protection.  I believe strongly in IP (except
> where it's protected by bullshit laws enacted by lobbyists that don't
> accept
> reasonable fair use rights and perpetuate never-ending protection).
>
> If an artist chooses to try to sell you his/her work in some DRM'd form
> that
> you dislike, I say you reject that artist's work.  Let the marketplace
> decide.  Stick to content creators whose philosophy is sympatico with your
> own.
>
> So I come down on the side of letting the technology support DRM,
> permissions, watermarks and anything anyone can think of and implement
> sanely.  But none of this will matter unless we foster a culture of trust
> between producers and consumers of media.  We're getting to a point where
> potentially every consumer is also at least a micro-producer (mix tapes
> for
> your friends?)  The old model of huge, monolithic information source and
> millions of mindless couch potatoes is going out the window -- and this
> medium is helping that along (Avatars are representations of each
> individual's expression -- and are therefore a production!)
>
> Think of the bright side: we are developing what is arguably going to be a
> medium with the potential to subsume all that came before it.  We have a
> chance to 'do it right'.  I don't mean technically -- I mean culturally.
> Free-the-bits types have to realize that commercial, market-driven
> business
> is essential to success.  My-bits-are-mine types have to realize that some
> people will not accept being treated like potential criminals.  Why can't
> we
> all just get along?
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