[Opensim-users] Speaking of Content Theft, How About Our Own Backyard?

[Len Brown]

Unfortunately, what you propose is still utterly impossible to put into
practice.  This is one of those few times when a person can say with
absolute certainty there will NEVER be a way one will be capable of fully
securing their virtual creations.

In a perfect (Apple/Mac) world, all hardware and software originates from a
single exclusive source.  In said perfect world such things can be tightly
controlled and moderated.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Master_Mirage <mirage123 at verizon.net>wrote:

>
>
> The greatest weakness of our virtual environment is that it must ultimately
> be rendered within the confines of a viewer application to make the world
> visible on our computer screens.  This, by its very nature, makes it
> impossible to protect any content whatsoever.
>
> It's like all the copyguards surrounding video.  they all work well and
> great when attempting media to media copying, as in disc duplication.
> However, the moment the video is rendered on a screen then it is ultimately
> vulnerable to exploitation.
>
> One of the easiest, fastest and most sure-fire ways to "steal" a new movie
> in the theaters is by simply using a video camera in the theater to record
> the video as it plays on-screen.
>
> With virtual worlds, the fact that everything must ultimately be rendered
> so
> that we can see and enjoy it, also means that circumventions can easily
> exist to exploit the rendering and thus be "recorded" and saved by an
> unscrupulous pirate who can then do whatever they wish with the end result.
>
> - Len
>
> Well i think its more a matter of making it less attractive for someone to
> do mostly. If there is no use for stolen stuff because the system wount let
> it be imported or exported is part of it. The other would be a type of
> water
> mark in it to. Why i agree most all of that wount stop it, it could at
> least
> leave a verry bad taste in there mouth. Most users are verry cool and dont
> want problems from anyone and tend to do the right things. As it is were
> not
> really trying at all and i think anything is better than nothing.
>
> We dont have to make it easy or attrative for the bad guys though. :-)
>
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