[sldev] Re: [ARCH//META] Permissions and limitations of distrust

[Lawson English]

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> On 24-Sep-2007, at 12:04, Abh Serechai Belxjander wrote:
>> where is the middle ground?
>
> You're looking at it as a technical issue. It's not. It's a social 
> one. It's like you're saying "speed limit signs don't stop people 
> speeding, so there's no point posting them".
>
>>   you get a certificate allocated by verisign,  LL have already put 
>> "trust verisign" on their end,
>
> No they haven't. Not in this design.
>
> They've given YOU, as a creator of an object, the option to choose to 
> trust certificates signed by verisign.
>
> If you have checked "verisign" in that example list I posted, then SL 
> will allow your content to be transferred into regions if they have a 
> certificate signed by verisign. If you haven't, it's not even going to 
> ask for that certificate... it'll deny the transfer.
>
Interestingly enough, I was wondering about the legal precedents and 
trying to explain to a judge that someone hacking their account to 
transport copyrighted material they owned into a new sim without a trust 
certificate was wrong and a violation of various kinds of copyright laws.

Then I realized that there are already precedents where region codes are 
supported in DVDs. Hack your video player to play multiple region DVDs 
and you are violating the law. Start selling or making available for 
distribution, the content of region coded DVDs, and you're liable for 
breaking several laws at once.

Helping people break the law is also against the law, etc.

We're not in virgin legal territory here, IMHO.