[Opensim-users] Question: is it still complicated to save Creator information with OAR?

[aerowolf at gmail.com]

Prevent theft?  I don't think that's actually possible.  But something to help bring instances of such to the actual owner's attention... I think that's doable.

A cooperative protocol between the client, the asset server, and some logging server system would be useful -- again, not to prevent theft, but just to notify of potential misuse.

On asset upload, client could optionally add knowledge of any ownership claims it's aware of.
On asset download, client could optionally receive knowledge of any ownership claims the asset server is aware of.
On asset download, client would calculate hash of asset and store { content hash, the asset URL, ownership claims it receives from the asset server } tuple.
On hash collision, if the ownership information is not identical, all ownership claimants would be notified of the ownership claim collision, and where the collision occurred.
Precompiled binaries of OpenSim asset server, and unmodified sources used to build them, could also have the notification code built in.

I wonder... should there should be a concept of "open source - open ethics" or something?  If you set the distributed binaries up to perform that kind of checking by default, and set the .example configs to opt the server in by default, then... how many people would disable that code?  Particularly since it would be designed to help protect the rights of content creators.

I am of the belief that DRM shouldn't be a matter of preventing the usage of something, it should be a matter of notifying a rights claimant of potential misuse, so that the grievance would be more appropriately aired with the potential to be put before a court.  Our job as developers should be enabling the lawyers to do their jobs, not trying to put the lawyers out of business.

Ah well.  Just a dream.  I know that Diva and the rest of the team are too busy to implement it, and I've been tainted by looking at the Linden C++ source, so I can't contribute anything.

-Kyle H

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:55 PM,  <diva at metaverseink.com> wrote:
> No one is talking about protecting anything from theft. That's way out of
> scope of anything done in OpenSimulator for the time being.
> All we are going to do is to assign the creator field to something that
> makes sense across virtual worlds, and, optionally, including a license to
> the archive that states the intentions and wishes of whoever created it.
>
> On 10/7/2010 8:08 PM, DutchGlory wrote:
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Sounds great,  especially  if you want to sell your items. and you able to
>> protect your items from theft..
>>
>> Dutch
>>
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