Comments on: Copy Protection vs Permissions – again.

By: Adam Frisby » Blog Archive » Dodgy Characters

Adam Frisby » Blog Archive » Dodgy Characters — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:35:42 +0000

[...] has no proper permissions system (something I debunked thouroughly earlier), and that region operators have full permissions on anything in their regions. (Equivilent to how [...]

By: nixnerd

nixnerd — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:59:20 +0000

I’m not meaning to be pedantic – but could I just highlight something Rob Myers said in his post above, which may be inaccurate, and therefore inadvertently mislead some readers.

Rob mentions not teleporting *copy-protected* inventory, however Adam highlights the fact that OpenSim uses *Permissions*, and as he says Permissions and Copy-protection are two completely different things.

So Rob, might I add that I agree with your idea in principle – assuming you meant to say that *OpenSim should add filters to optionally disable the teleporting of inventory which has certain permission set, such as no copy or no modify*

By: Rob Myers

Rob Myers — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:20:08 +0000

I think OpenSim should add filters that can be enabled to refuse to teleport copy-protected inventory to Free sims (and refuse to copy non-copy protected inventory into closed sims). They should be optional and give avatar users the choice of not teleporting to closed sims.

This would allow copy-protection fetishists to fade into irrelevance without imposing their dogma on more pragmatic sims.