[sldev] Re: [ARCH] Permissions

[Argent Stonecutter]

From: John Hurliman <jhurliman at wsu.edu>
> The comparison to iTunes is a red herring. Do you honestly think that
> the iTunes store would be successful if there was an easy to use  
> way of
> downloading any song you wanted for free?

There *is* an easy way of downloading any content _you can see_ in  
the iTunes store. You can only "see" 30 second clips, true, but when  
you go to a store in SL you can only see pictures of most of the  
content... you have to buy it to download it. Or find someone who has  
bought it, and download their copy... like people do with music.

But what we're talking about in THIS context is even closer to the  
iTunes model. You bought something in-world, or on the iTunes store,  
and you want to take it to another grid, or play it on a Zune. To do  
that you have to get SL's or Apple's permission, or bypass the DRM.