[sldev] Permissions

[dirk husemann]

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> From: Tillie Ariantho <tillie at xp2.de>
>> 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'?
>
> Of course it only works 'sometimes'. It doesn't have to work 'all the
> time'. That's the point. And out of all the scripts I've written in
> SL, the three that sell the best are sold full perm, and two of them
> are actually BSD licensed. They still sell better than the stuff
> that's no-transfer.
excellent! nice to hear stuff like that :-)
>
> And really, this is not something I can do anything about. This is not
> something Linden Labs can do anything about. This is not something
> Apple or Microsoft can do anything about. ALL DRM is honor system DRM.
> That's inherent in the problem DRM is trying to solve. Pretending that
> something better than "honor system" DRM is possible outside a Science
> Fiction novel is fooling yourself, at best. Trying to make DRM
> stronger than needed to remind people that they're doing something
> dishonest, trying to actually keep a motivated person from bypassing
> it, is worse than foolish... it's abusive.
and as LL has said, they are not going to go down the DRM route.

[...]
> Apple came right out and told the labels that they couldn't get
> Science Fiction DRM, back before the iTunes Store opened. They seem to
> be doing OK with that.
and more and more labels are going non-DRM lately --- which makes sense:
how much do you want to take away from your US 0.99 price per track and
spend it on a complicated (and thus costly) DRM system, that just turns
away your customers in the long run?

dr scofield's DRM law: it only works in the lab.

    cheers,
    dirk/dr scofield

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dr dirk husemann, pervasive computing, ibm zurich research lab
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