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Cristina Videira Lopes wrote:
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style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Technically
your comments are off, as Michael already pointed
out. They are so off that I think they are directed at the Open Sourced
LL viewer,
i.e. at the ability for clients to get complete information about the
objects inworld to the point of being able to store them locally and to
replicate
them. Note that this has nothing to do with OpenSim, strictly speaking.
But let
me comment on that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">While
the solution is technically feasible, what sense would it
make to go around the world seeing garbage everywhere?? Plus anyone who
wanted
to see the decrypted objects would have to use an extended version of
the LL
viewer, one that does decryption. Not to mention the added performance
overhead.
… Again, I doubt massive adoption, but this could definitely be done,
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completely agree with that. the point of a virtual world is that you
*can see the virtual world* --- again, this is the core fallacy of DRM:
you want keep your content a secret but at the same you need to give
your customers access to the content otherwise why would they pay for
it???<br>
<br>
let face facts (and i'm repeating arguments others and i have made, i
know):<br>
<ul>
<li>clients will have to be told about the shape and texture of
virtual world objects --- *otherwise they won't be able to render it*</li>
<li>scripts can be kept on server, clients don't get access to them
(unless you own the object or share it)</li>
<li>in a future interconnected grid of grid (let's call that a
virtual universe), you could add "permissions" that let you specify to
which grids an object may be exported, that way you could say, i trust
the LL grid, i don't trust dr scofield's grid because, oh, i don't
know, she doesn't agree with me on DRM and VW ;-)</li>
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that last approach will have consequences for your customers though:
they won't be able to take the objects they bought from you with them
to dr scofield's grid. some won't care, some won't like it --- and
probably not be return customers. but that then is something you as a
content provider have to come to terms with.<br>
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cheers,<br>
dr scofield<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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