[Opensim-dev] oddities with asset storage

[Melanie]

No one would sue over a $0.05 shirt. The point of technical copy 
protection is not to block copying. It is to make it require 
criminal energy.
You can't do it accidentally, or because you don't know better, it 
prevents "casual copying". You need to invest criminal energy, 
either by downloading software that does it for you, or by writing 
it. That proves intent. Which is what you need, in several 
countries, of you _do_ want to get them slammed for more than just 
the price of the item.
If you can prove intent, the $0.05 shirt can translate into $1000 in 
penalties - and that is what a creator wants.

Melanie


Tommi Laukkanen wrote:
> I have to admit I did not consider this through before posting. Still after
> reflecting on it a bit I am thinking that we might need to consider this
> from practical view point. Usually all copy right enforcing software is
> cracked in no time and open source is especially vulnerable. So I would
> state that if you can copy something say to your inventory or wear it you
> can copy all dependencies to your asset provider. If someone resells
> your assets or breaks your license in some other way you need to sue them
> which is in reality only real protection for any immaterial rights.
> 
> Please note that if someone can even observe any asset in a viewer it is
> trivial to write a version of that viewer which will make local copies of
> anything you want. It might not be trivial for end user but cracked versions
> would be soon available in internet. We can not even defend against that as
> our software is open source and modifications are legit. Even those allowing
> for local copies. I don't think legislation in any country forbits you from
> saving a stream or image to your local disk even if it is copyrighted. It
> becomes illegal if you break the license by for example redistributing
> or selling. Instead of starting a fight we can not win we should make a
> clean way to mark licensing and copyrights to all assets and leave it to the
> morale of the users and legal systems.
> 
> regards,
> Tommi
> 
> 
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