Comments on: Transcript of Metanomics “Connecting the Dots” on Grid Legal Issues https://virtuallyblind.com/2008/08/04/benjamin-duranske-metanomics-transcript/ Legal Issues That Impact Virtual Worlds Tue, 13 May 2014 04:03:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Taran Rampersad https://virtuallyblind.com/2008/08/04/benjamin-duranske-metanomics-transcript/#comment-18613 Taran Rampersad Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:57:18 +0000 http://virtuallyblind.com/?p=546#comment-18613 Good stuff, Ben (as usual). I mentioned before, somewhere on one website or another (haha!) that I used to be completely against DRM because of the fact that it trod so heavily on 'Fair Use' and compatible law around the world. While code isn't law, it has a really messy part to play here since a framework for the copy protection system of Second Life (copy/mod/transfer) has to be in effect where content goes - but that system is *not* perfect and has some serious weaknesses as far as licensing. There was a time when people were lobbying for Creative Commons type licensing - but here's the thing that Linden Lab probably ran into: the quantity of items in their asset server that would have to be grandfathered in. I think - or I would like to think - that the framework will not use Second Life's de facto DRM, but will be compatible with it. It could be so much better. What Second Life was never fully intended to deal with it's own success... and that is it's greatest failure. Good stuff, Ben (as usual). I mentioned before, somewhere on one website or another (haha!) that I used to be completely against DRM because of the fact that it trod so heavily on ‘Fair Use’ and compatible law around the world.

While code isn’t law, it has a really messy part to play here since a framework for the copy protection system of Second Life (copy/mod/transfer) has to be in effect where content goes – but that system is *not* perfect and has some serious weaknesses as far as licensing. There was a time when people were lobbying for Creative Commons type licensing – but here’s the thing that Linden Lab probably ran into: the quantity of items in their asset server that would have to be grandfathered in.

I think – or I would like to think – that the framework will not use Second Life’s de facto DRM, but will be compatible with it. It could be so much better. What Second Life was never fully intended to deal with it’s own success… and that is it’s greatest failure.

]]> By: Turulcsirip - Stephanie Frasco https://virtuallyblind.com/2008/08/04/benjamin-duranske-metanomics-transcript/#comment-18593 Turulcsirip - Stephanie Frasco Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:08:28 +0000 http://virtuallyblind.com/?p=546#comment-18593 [...] Transcript of Metanomics “Connecting the Dots” on Grid Legal Issues: I appeared on .. http://virtuallyblind.com/2008/08/04/benjamin-duranske-metanomics-transcript/ « előző | következő » Stephanie Frasco — 2008. 08. 06. [...] [...] Transcript of Metanomics “Connecting the Dots” on Grid Legal Issues: I appeared on .. http://virtuallyblind.com/2008/08/04/benjamin-duranske-metanomics-transcript/ « előző | következő » Stephanie Frasco — 2008. 08. 06. [...]

]]> By: Doubledown Tandino https://virtuallyblind.com/2008/08/04/benjamin-duranske-metanomics-transcript/#comment-18584 Doubledown Tandino Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:09:13 +0000 http://virtuallyblind.com/?p=546#comment-18584 Yes, total awesomeness in the presentation. I have more theories, questions, and what-ifs now than before... that's usually a good thing. Yes, total awesomeness in the presentation.

I have more theories, questions, and what-ifs now than before… that’s usually a good thing.

]]> By: Ashcroft Burnham https://virtuallyblind.com/2008/08/04/benjamin-duranske-metanomics-transcript/#comment-18580 Ashcroft Burnham Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:55:56 +0000 http://virtuallyblind.com/?p=546#comment-18580 The more difficult that technical enforcement measures become, the more important that cost-effective non-technical enforcement mechanisms become. The more difficult that technical enforcement measures become, the more important that cost-effective non-technical enforcement mechanisms become.

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