[sldev] Re: [ARCH] Re: Permissions

[Argent Stonecutter]

From: Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com>
> Its called "signing your work" and people have been doing it for
> hundreds (thousands?) of years.

No, it's more than "signing your work". You can sign and watermark  
your painting, but that won't tell the guy who bought it who you are  
or what you were thinking of or the fact that it's 15 out of a  
limited edition of 30, or anything else that's on the back of the  
canvas, or in the colophon of the book, or the garment label. Why  
don't you want people to be able to attach a label?

> When you license content, you're licensing COMMUNISM!

Traffic lights and speed limit signs are communism too. It's my car,  
I bought it, and I paid good money for that engine and frame to get a  
car that's safe at 200 MPH, why should I be limited to 35 on city  
streets? I'm not going to go 200, of course, but I'm totally safe at  
50! And it's midnight, so I'm gonna go 70, and there's nobody coming,  
so I'm going though that red light...

Hello officer. No, sir, I'm not drunk, I'm just exercising my rights  
as a capitalist!

> The problem here, except maybe in the case of scripts, is all this
> "trusted grid/sim" stuff is a red herring.

No more than the permissions system itself. But the permissions  
system is necessary, to act as that "speed limit sign".

> How can you prevent someone from "right click,
> save"-ing an avatar, then re-uploading it as new content on whatever
> "untrusted grid" they wish?

Well, for one thing, you won't get the clothes that way, just the  
baked textures. But another grid will be able to get the clothes, and  
the alternate versions you're not currently wearing, and get it all  
in the preferred format.

> Its how the web works now, why should "future SL" be any different?

SL isn't the web. Future SL isn't the web. The web-equivalent is  
going to be all the domains together. And if you don't like SL's  
policies, then you can stay in domains that have policies you like.  
That's how the market works... you don't like the iTunes store, you  
can stick to eMusic and 3hive. The ARCHITECTURE level is not about  
what those policies are, but how you express the policies.