On 11/18/2012 10:14 AM, Snowcrash Short wrote:
I hope you are not implying that I have at any time illegally copied content.
No, I wasn't implying that. I was, perhaps, trying to impress on you that there are other ways in which to display a disregard for other people's rights and obligations, however. If you truly can't see outside of the "My Rights!" box, then, I find myself feeling deeply discouraged.
Let me try one last tack. It's not as though people here haven't known a tool like this is possible, or that there haven't been people capable of creating one. But there has been a largely unspoken agreement in the community that since OpenSim and the viewers it depends upon do not yet have the proper permissions or other facilities necessary to make such a tool safe for the majority of use cases, that it's best to shelve such projects until there are. This tacit agreement is a good faith effort that a member of the community in good standing acknowledges.
As it stands, you've so far presented a fait accompli, conceived and developed to this point without community input, with no real indication that you have any interest in solving the real issues that prevent at least some of the controversy associated with this sort of tool. An unbending insistence on making grid operators opt-in to content protection is not a good faith gesture. Not first taking steps to work with OpenSim core developers or TPVs to have at least some safeguards in place wasn't either. You seem to be treating such safeguards as trivialities or irrelevancies. I promise you that to many of us, they're neither.
Do I want a tool that lets me reliably backup my inventory without having console access? Yes. Oh, god yes! But I also want one that protects *my* reputation as a user, that I can use without fear of being labeled as an infringer. I say this as someone who does not own or operate a grid. As a user, I need to know I'm using a reputable tool that the community accepts. Would such a tool probably take more effort than the one you have now? Certainly. But with rights come responsibilities, one of which is the recognition of and support of other people's rights, even ones you may not be legally required to support. "I can," doesn't always mean you should. And "not illegal" doesn't always mean right. Other people matter. That's how I look at it, anyway.
As I and others keep telling you, right now your tool isn't sounding like one I could use. That's unfortunate, because it could be, with more work, effort, and a willingness to accept the realities others besides yourself must live with. You can still do that.
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