[Opensim-dev] oddities with asset storage

[Tommi Laukkanen]

How does the situation change if you clone the asset to your chosen storage
provider? Does it not still require use of hacked storage provider to get
access rights to the asset outside the defined rights?

Tommi

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Melanie <melanie at t-data.com> wrote:

> 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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