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The Burnman wrote:
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type="cite">On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Charles Krinke <<a
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we move forward and to draw a real-world analogy. It is appropriate for
me to keep my clothes, wallet and celephone in my home and not to get
new clothes for each building I enter during the business day.</div>
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order to move forward with a metaverse, we will need to get to the
point where a user indeed does carry his inventory along with him. Now,
to address your point, there may be certain things that carry certain
permissions that are kept on certain servers, but I suspect you will
need to rethink your paradigm from the existing LL notion and modify it
to consider a metaverse with a number of grids (or buildings) and users
that move from one to the other much like we do in RL. That will mean
that the notion of inventory will need to evolve to avoid your notions
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So in the development of a metaverse... are you under the impression
that all content created for use in such an environment should be
completely free and open-sourced like OS is? I ask this because with
client side storage of assets, you are removing any protection content
creators have that their content won't be duplicated and resold. I
don't know about you... but I don't know that many content creators
who have the resources to seek legal action against the number of
people that will exploit local asset storage.<br>
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I, for one, will not be all that interested in developing quality
content for a system which affords my work no protection. I don't know
that many people who currently create content for SL who would do so
either. It seems an awful waste of talent.<br>
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not necessarily. remember you talking to folks who are in the process
of creating the metaverse of the future --- and it's under a BSD style
license. not even GPL. awful waste of talent? don't think so. rather an
incredible demonstration of talent.<br>
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i can copy bootlegged MP3s...i choose not to and instead buy them. of
course i expect a fair price (having to pay the same amount for an MP3
album as for the CD when i foot the bill for the bandwith and storage
and don't get the plastic and the content provider doesn't have to
entertain a supply chain is not a fair price). give me a good user
experience, give me good content at a fair price and i will buy anytime
instead of copying (even though i could copy). <br>
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I will continue to test my grid and offer what I can in that realm, and
offer my insights into end-user functionality... which should be a
major focus in the development cycle, but I am not sure where the
benefit is to a metaverse which will end up less secure for content
creators... and their Intellectual Property... than the internet we
have today.<br>
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i claim the metaverse will end up with will be as secure as the
internet we have today --- today's internet is not secure in the sense
you are assuming it to be.<br>
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cheers,<br>
dirk<br>
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dr dirk husemann, mathmatics and computer science, ibm zurich research lab
SL: dr scofield ---- <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:drscofield@xyzzyxyzzy.net">drscofield@xyzzyxyzzy.net</a> ---- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://xyzzyxyzzy.net/">http://xyzzyxyzzy.net/</a>
RL: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hud@zurich.ibm.com">hud@zurich.ibm.com</a> - +41 44 724 8573 - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.zurich.ibm.com/~hud/">http://www.zurich.ibm.com/~hud/</a>
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