news.com.com— A program making the rounds of the Linden Lab's digital world allows users to copy whatever they like, even if they're supposed to pay for it. Images: Storming the virtual gates
Nov 15, 2006View in Crawl 4
HAHAHAHAHAHA....HAHA....HAHAHAHA...oh god, make it stop. it's too funny. really. dumbasses. "i'm gonna buy a virtual shirt! what!?! you can hack it for free? waaaah!"
Piracy FINALLY makes its way into the MMO that everyone loves to feel apathetic about. I think I'll find it and blow the dust off Emperor Cheeseburger or whatever screwed up name they made me pick.
If you had a machine in real life that could examine an object (like a car, for example), and make an exact duplicate of it, without harming the original in any way, what kind of impact would that have on our economy? Would copying an object be synonymous with stealing it? These are interesting questions.
You know, in the real world there's no difference between "copying something" and "making your own". They both take similar amounts of effort.... in fact, copying something (like a bookshelf, or a pizza, or a car) might take more time because you're working off of an example rather than a specification. And business models take that into account.In the digital world, copying things takes much less effort than creating them from scratch, and business models need to take that into account too rather than adding artificial restrictions just because they enable untenable business models.If the SL market is truly being flooded by knockoffs, the so-called "content creators" need to start filing for and enforcing trademarks like Nike, Levis, etc. do in the real world, rather than trying to pretend their imaginary products are real.Personally, the fact that people are starting to ask Linden to implement DRM in SL just makes me unwilling to bother giving it a try. If they officially announce that they intend to never add DRM, though, I'll give it as fair a shot as I can without compromising my work, family or real-world social life.
Closed AccountNov 16, 2006
Because some people have NO LIFES so they get involved in a virtual one instead
herculezNov 16, 2006
Yeah, cause WoW isn't at all dorky.
ulyssesytNov 16, 2006
HAHAHAHAHAHA....HAHA....HAHAHAHA...oh god, make it stop. it's too funny. really. dumbasses. "i'm gonna buy a virtual shirt! what!?! you can hack it for free? waaaah!"
spo8Nov 16, 2006
Piracy FINALLY makes its way into the MMO that everyone loves to feel apathetic about. I think I'll find it and blow the dust off Emperor Cheeseburger or whatever screwed up name they made me pick.
bridbeunNov 16, 2006
This could very well mean the end the world..........of Second Life.
o0joshua0oNov 16, 2006
If you had a machine in real life that could examine an object (like a car, for example), and make an exact duplicate of it, without harming the original in any way, what kind of impact would that have on our economy? Would copying an object be synonymous with stealing it? These are interesting questions.
raindog469Nov 16, 2006
You know, in the real world there's no difference between "copying something" and "making your own". They both take similar amounts of effort.... in fact, copying something (like a bookshelf, or a pizza, or a car) might take more time because you're working off of an example rather than a specification. And business models take that into account.In the digital world, copying things takes much less effort than creating them from scratch, and business models need to take that into account too rather than adding artificial restrictions just because they enable untenable business models.If the SL market is truly being flooded by knockoffs, the so-called "content creators" need to start filing for and enforcing trademarks like Nike, Levis, etc. do in the real world, rather than trying to pretend their imaginary products are real.Personally, the fact that people are starting to ask Linden to implement DRM in SL just makes me unwilling to bother giving it a try. If they officially announce that they intend to never add DRM, though, I'll give it as fair a shot as I can without compromising my work, family or real-world social life.
Closed AccountNov 18, 2006
You can check for the second life stuff at <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/playable_web_games/Second_Life_Starts_here">http://digg.com/playable_web_games/Second_Life_Starts_here</a>
tateruninoDec 12, 2006
There already is at least one CRPG inside SL, called Dark Life.