[Opensim-users] Question about IAR files

[Karen Palen]

One of my (many) laments about this situation is that if usable tools with reasonable restrictions are not available for these legitimate uses then "pirate" oriented tools will be developed and used instead!

Karen

--- On Mon, 2/22/10, Len Brown <lenwbrown at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Len Brown <lenwbrown at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Question about IAR files
> To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> Date: Monday, February 22, 2010, 9:30 PM
> On Mon, Feb 22,
> 2010 at 4:32 PM, Justin Clark-Casey <jjustincc at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> As well as second inventory, I know that some of the other
> SL clients (e.g. Imprudence, Meerkat) have inventory suck
> and blow built in and store data using a different file
> format.  I'm not sure what the current state of play is
> there - last time I looked the contents of items themselves
> were not being saved/restored.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I'd like to
> add here my own personal experience with one of the
> "banned" viewers - CryoGen.  Since obtaining a
> copy of it some time
> back I've spent a tremendous amount of time using it on
> my own personal
> OpenSim servers and have grown rather addicted to it. 
> However, the use
> of it in Second Life results in immediate "not open
> for discussion"
> banning and account cancellation so I am very cautious not
> to use it to
> log into my SL account.
> 
> 
> 
> And, of course, the obvious - that the viewer's
> intention is to
> replicate anything and everything in sight, without any
> regard for who
> owns what.  It simply ignores all rights and permissions.
> 
> 
> 
> So why do I think it's better than sliced bread now? 
> Because I have
> been able to save thousands of items I've built over
> the years in
> Second Life and each item is saved as a simple text file -
> an XML file,
> to be exact.  Properly named and stored, I have my entire
> archive of
> furniture, buildings, you name it - all saved neatly as
> little text
> files.  Even better...  Uncompressed they total 1.54
> Gig, but when I 7-Zipped them, the final archive was
> 5.67 Megs. 
> I kid you not.  I was then able to upload my entire
> prim-based Second
> Life inventory as a small attachment to an email, and have
> put a few
> other copies here and there on thumb drives, in my Google
> Docs storage
> not that it allows me to upload any file, etc.
> 
> You might be wondering how I managed to backup my Second
> Life inventory using it without logging into Second Life. 
> Well, that is the main reason it is so damned terrifying. 
> Logging into Second Life using a free account and the
> CryoGen browser, and using my premium account to temporarily
> block the use of scripts on my land (which can be used to
> detect and auto-ban users logged in with CryoGen) I used the
> free account and CryoGen to walk through my various stores
> and replicate everything in sight.
> 
> 
> While I do not whatsoever condone stealing in any form,
> it's an interesting conundrum for me to have to use
> "illegal" software to steal MY OWN products, but
> as you said about Second Inventory being less than par,
> CryoGen does a phenomenal job of allowing me to copy
> perfectly replicated items from my shops in SL to my sandbox
> in OpenSim.
> 
> 
> -- 
> - Len W. Brown 
>    lenwbrown at gmail.com
> 
> 
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