[Opensim-users] Announcement of inventory tool (MyInventory), mostly of interest to grid operators/grid nauts

[Snowcrash Short]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Melanie <melanie at t-data.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 19/11/2012 22:51, Snowcrash Short wrote:
> > Theft is a criminal act punishable by law, and illegal acquisition or
> > distribution of immaterial property (typically IP) is theft, what you are
> > referring to is "breach of contract" and requires that a contract has
> been
> > entered into by both parties. If no contract has been made made - in my
> > country it must be entered into explicitly - there cannot be a "breach of
> > contract".
>
> Theft of IP occurs when you obtain copies of IP in ways not licensed
> by the creator.

I believed I covered that with "illegal acquisition".

> This is a criminal offense. Additionally, you incur
> civil liability through breach of contract, which is what the TOS
> are. In Avination, you cannot log in without accepting the TOS,
> which means you have entered into this contract and are bound by it.
>
Avination is not the only grid out there!

>
> Therefore, downloading content from Avination will open you up to
> both criminal and civil penalties.
>
> You keep mentioning laws in your country, but that is irrelevant and
> immaterial.

They are very relevant to me, and to users who are governed by similar law,
trying to cover everything through the lowest common denominator doesn't
work, and you know it!

> Most infringers are not from your country. If most
> infringers were from a single country, that country could be IP
> blocked and we'd have no more problems. Sadly, infringers are all
> over and that means that, due to statistical distribution, most
> infringers are not covered by your country's laws.
>
> Let me state this here for the record: I do not believe that anyone
> here is accusing you personally of infringing copyright. I certainly
> do not accuse you of such a thing. We are concerned, as a community,
> that your tool will remove a barrier to entry for copybotters. They
> will no longer need to learn complex toolsets. That is the risk
> we're seeing and that is why some of the posters on this thread have
> started thinking aloud about blocking technologies.
>
> I have hinted at it before people started saying it outright - isn't
> it better to have an accepted, community-supported tool than to have
> a banned tool?
>
> - Melanie
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