User talk:Gareth Ellison/Views of the Gareth

Comments on central services

> "Would LL still enforce the TOS as strictly for 3rd party sims that merely make use of these central services?"

• LL know full well that strict enforcement is pretty much impossible in a worldwide distributed mesh of grids and worlds. They must also know full well that they would not even have legal jurisdiction for enforcement worldwide, and that if they tried they would have only limited success and get bad publicity, and that if they tried really hard then it would cause fragmentation and their eventual demise. And on top of that, it must also be obvious to them that legal action costs money and that human involvement is expensive and doesn't scale, and that the laws of California are only of academic interest in the wider world. So, assuming that sanity prevails in LL (and I think it does, given their clear understanding that DRM is doomed too), I think that the answer to your question is "No".

• What I do think they'll do is to add a few more basic protections into the new infrastructure, particular in support of privacy and to aid in the fight against griefing and abuse, and leave it at that. Because more just won't work. --Morgaine Dinova 23:07, 26 September 2007 (PDT)