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

[Karen Palen]

Apple/Mac is very tightly controlled, but far from perfect.

Search for "Ipod" on Pirate Bay to see what I mean!

Pirate Bay is a nasty dose of reality for any protection scheme, I have used them to demolish fast talking DRM sales geeks more than once.

Very effective during their pitch to the board of directors :-)

Karen

--- On Wed, 2/24/10, Len Brown <lenwbrown at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Len Brown <lenwbrown at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Speaking of Content Theft, How About Our Own  Backyard?
> To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 9:54 PM
> 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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