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

[Len Brown]

I see what you're saying.  I think the positive side here is that in order
to make pirating the end product less palatable is to apply a good dose of
salt and vinegar to the meal.  But incorporating a system of checks and
balances into the core prims in use, it makes it more difficult to strip
from that anything even remotely useful.

There is one thing I have employed in-world in Second Life that has worked
tremendously well without any additional resources:

When I rezz a large build into the virtual world I then select the object
and then unlink everything.  For a large build of, say 500 prims, this
leaves the object fully recognizable in-world and usable.  But the object is
now 500 individual pieces.

Through my own experimentation and what I've learned from others, there does
not (yet) exist a hacked viewer capable of letting the end user select a
large group of unlinked prims and replicate them as a whole.  I'm certain
that will eventually change, but for now it serves as a 100% fool-proof
method for me to prevent others from copying my builds.

At some point I guestimate there will be a viewer that will permit someone
to teleport into the center of a region and then the entire region, land,
all items, textures - you name it - will be ripped out and saved along the
lines of our present OAR packaging system.

Just my 2 cents.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:55 PM, John Mieske <johnmieske at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok.. I have an idea..  not sure how possible this is..  so this is a long
> shot....  I know in SL you can create a script that gets the persons UUID.
> That ID in turn can be used in conjunction with your items and in SL it is
> what safe guards your inventory to a small degree.  It also shows who the
> creator and owner is. Now these guys who upload the content, they get it and
> attempt to upload to OSG for example. Now what if on the website OSG had a
> way to create the user with the UUID from SL, IF they are using a name from
> SL. In turn the UUID would store that users UUID in the "new" database that
> would be the same one from SL. Now..  for the sake of argument, there would
> be a check mark you as a newbie can click to show your using a name from SL.
>  Now if that person who did not check mark that cannot upload content
> already made. ( accept textures and sounds which there is NO WAY to
> safeguard against. But all other content will have been made from a grid
> other then OSG can show this. If the content from OSG is made then another
> type of perms is set so that you must have a UUID attached on each file if
> you want to re-upload it..
>
> Maybe I am saying it wrong and I know i'm exhaustedly tired right now.  But
> can anyone get an idea of what i'm saying here ?
>
> John
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Master_Mirage <mirage123 at verizon.net>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Sadly like so many schemes that only works until some crook fakes the "do
>> not copy flag" or something similar.
>>
>> Even something which is a "closely held" as the IPod has similar problems.
>> I
>> did a search for Ipod apps on Pirate Bay the other day.
>>
>> They are always a good check of what works and what doesn't!
>>
>> I found more than 1000 items, including all kinds of MP3s, software, and
>> "hacks"!
>>
>> Many many very competent people have worked on Digital Rights Management
>> (DRM), but as far as I know there has never been any solution worth the
>> trouble and hassle involved!
>>
>> That doesn't stop the snake oil salesman from claiming to have "the
>> ultimate" solution of course.We are seeing that on Second Life right now.
>>
>> Karen
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>> I agree to a point. I tend to think in terms if asked "What have i done as
>> a
>> grid oper. to help stop the spread of stolen content?" I have nothing to
>> show them sadly and thats scary as hell to me!
>> If as a grid op i can at least show a good faith attemp at prevention and
>> away to track it quickly to the user that broght it in. Id feel alot
>> better
>> and prob. the users would be alot happyer knowing it too.
>>
>> Something at this point is better than nothing i think.
>> :-)
>>
>>
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