[sldev] Permissions - A content creator's view

[Jason Giglio]

John Hurliman wrote:
> There is a technical solution to this problem, and I think we should use 
> existing standards wherever possible. All SL clients should adhere to 
> RFC 3514 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt) and any client that plans 
> on not obeying any permission bits should be setting their security flag 
> to 0x1 in any simulator connections. That way we can achieve the same 
> level of security and honor system provided by the current protocol, but 
> in a more open standards fashion.

Unfortunately, implementations of RFC3514 often infringe on at least one 
patent from Adobe.

Namely:
Patent #41232124 - Method and apparatus of protecting informational 
content using bitfields - Adobe

On the plus side, if we manage to dodge this patent, the DMCA would 
allow enforcement against anyone that utilized a content protection 
circumvention device, such as the ! operator.

There was bill to ban such "logic inverting devices" in congress, but 
there were some "civil libertarians" (as always) that objected and it 
wasn't acted on this year.

We only need to look at the FCC's broadcast flag to see that these 
systems do work.

-Jason