[sldev] P2P Web Textures now in demand to enable lossless image downloads to viewer

[Jacek Antonelli]

On 7/7/07, dale at daleglass.net <dale at daleglass.net> wrote:
> Like I repeatedly said already (and you seem to insist on ignoring),
> there's one big difference:
>
> I can choose not to click random website links, or not use streaming
> if I want to. I have absolutely no problem with things that are
> *optional* for me to use.
>
> Audio streams can only be set if you control the parcel, too. You can't
> simply show up anywhere on the grid and do something that lets you have
> everybody's IP address.
>
> I can't however realistically choose not to load textures.

You could realistically choose not to load textures _from the web_.
Assuming that such a feature could be disabled in preferences, of
course.

Audio and video streams on parcels only play if:
1) The appropriate preference checkboxes are enabled, and
2) You press Play on the media control tab.

If web and/or P2P textures could likewise be disabled by unchecking a
preference box, paranoid people could spend less time worrying about
this issue, and more time browsing the SLDEV archives to realize that
this same privacy debate happened back in January:

https://lists.secondlife.com/pipermail/sldev/2007-January/000182.html

Show me the patch to add the web/P2P texture downloading feature, and
I'll take the necessary 10 minutes out of my day to add a preference
checkbox to toggle it.

- Jacek