Comments on: Interview: Cory Linden on IP issues in Second Life

By: Urizenus

Urizenus — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:23:09 +0000

Squirrel, if I got your gist, I think that Phil Rosedale has something like that in mind long term. We discussed this between sessions at State of Play last year. The goal is that in the fullness of time there are no centralized servers, but the entire game is distributed across the computers of the gamers. Right now that is not feasible because no one has boxes with enought computing power, but in a few years…

Anyway, that’s what I took away from our conversation. Someone at LL can set me straight if they want.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 21:10:05 +0000

statements like “Just like WinAmp” are just not valid.

He didn’t say SL was just like WinAmp. He said that using a streaming audio webcast on your SL land is like running WinAmp.

By: Clickable Culture

Clickable Culture — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:23:51 +0000

SL's Cory Ondrejka on IP
The Second Life Herald (formerly known as The Alphaville Herald) has posted a digestible interview with Cory Ondrejka, Second Life's VP of Product Development. Ondrejka is quizzed about Second Life as it pertains to Intellectual Property--…

By: Squirrel

Squirrel — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 22:17:21 +0000

integrating P2P into SL seems a bit of a forgone conclusion. It’s going to happen and practically exists already (except, ya know it’s all ingame materials). The awesome idea presented by blaze (if I am misunderstanding please correct me) would be to run SL like “SETI at Home” (you know what I’m talking about the screensaver distributed processing thingie). Doing this, while unfathomably tricky to police, code, and whatever, would be great for the chance to employ Copywrited content. You’d pop into my house on SL and you’d be visiting my computer, and my content that I legaly own would be displayed, for you, my friends.

Anyway just a thought. Plus I’d love to see the integration of Croquet into SL. Check it: the possiblities are mindboggling

http://atsosxdev.doit.wisc.edu/croquetdevelopment/index.html

By: Cyanide Leviathan

Cyanide Leviathan — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 10:35:16 +0000

OT to post this herem but Urizenus, i forgot your YIM screen name, please email it to meh

By: blaze

blaze — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 03:17:17 +0000

I’ve posted a proposal in the SL forums if anyone is interested.

http://forums.secondlife.com//showthread.php?s=&threadid=19989

By: urizenus

urizenus — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 01:58:12 +0000

how sweet would that be!

By: blaze

blaze — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 01:29:28 +0000

Of course you already are P2P, you just own all the peers.

But for god sakes, let anyone add their computing / bandwidth to your grid.

By: blaze

blaze — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 01:24:15 +0000

I should have said no should should expect a “complete” answer. Using the word honest was just hyperbole. My bad. We’ve all read your paper. It was definitely complete, honest and a very important contribution.

However statements like “Just like WinAmp” are just not valid. RealPlayer or Quicktime or other small company single purpose media players are “Just like WinAmp”.

Saying SL is like WinAmp is like saying Windows is just like Opera because it happens to have IE embedded in it and therefore can implement IE however it wishes and doesn’t have to worry about anti-trust laws.

The anology while seductive for the gushing and unthinking advocate is simply wrong and does more harm than good.

I am, btw, a gushing advocate of SL .. it is to me the single most important thing on the internet today.

Corey – you guys really really should go P2P though. Run the economy, be the central bank, absolutely, someone has to, but give up a little bit of control and you will see this thing *REALLY* take off.

By: Alyexma

Alyexma — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 18:20:11 +0000

YOU SUCK DICK