[sldev] How Far For Security?

[Lawson English]

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> On 2008-06-10, at 01:34, Jason Giglio wrote:
>> Argent Stonecutter wrote:
>>> The corollary of (a) is "eliminate a huge portion of the SL economy,
>>> and possibly go out of business".
>>
>
>> Yes, because the entire economy collapsed the day after copybot came 
>> out.
>
> Don't be silly. If copybot had not been broken, incomplete, and 
> horribly inconvenient, if it been built into the standard client, with 
> right click "show source" and "save as" that worked like "show source" 
> and "save as" in a browser (because that IS what "treat it like the 
> web" implies) in a browser and let you trivially grab all prims and 
> assets in a convenient form for uploading as your own product, then... 
> yes... it likely would have.
>
> _
There's no provision in the average browser for extracting and then 
republishing content on the same website you extracted it from in the 
first place. Certainly not with the possibility of getting paid right 
then and there if you do it.

Many of the technical details of SL fit or can be made to fit the web, 
but the social/interaction details are quite different, IMHO.

Lawson