[sldev] Re: Re: Permissions (dirk husemann)

[Dale Glass]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 03:43:33PM +0200, Tillie Ariantho wrote:
> Quoting Argent Stonecutter <secret.argent at gmail.com>:
> 
> >[...]I could go  into a long dissertation as to why "honor system 
> >DRM" is adequate,  sufficient, and all you can get in any case. But 
> >"it works" should be all you need really.
> 
> I am not sure if all the content creators will be happy with it. Sure you 
> can
> tell them "it works". Will they believe you? What if it only works 
> 'sometimes'?
> Some people want to see money for EVERY copy of the things they create. 
> Maybe
> the bunch of creators will clean up then, some stay, some leave. We'll see. 
> :)

I'm pretty sure the smart ones understand that a 100% guarantee isn't
possible.

One thing that the ones I talked to want is enforcement. If it's not
possible to make assets uncopyable they'd like to be able to get those
who do it banned permanently and the damage undone.

Problem with that is that LL for quite understandable reasons doesn't
really want to play world police.

Unverified accounts appear to be a significant problem. Even if you ban
whoever copied your stuff, they can come back anyway, and it doesn't
seem like LL makes much of an effort to remove the copies they created.
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