http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5983003-description.html

Also check out Sony’s Home trailer for possible future implementation of this concept -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyquAXKeEI0

pay close attention to the end, after “coming soon” and states:

Home will grow into an enormous 3d network with sponsored spaces, a cinema that caters to downloadable content…

Oops

I wish I knew what this patent was up to. If its patent trolling, I can’t see anything good coming out of this. It will be ugly, and to have firms the size of Sony and IBM against you isn’t pretty, not to mention LL itself.

But nobody really knows yet.

You’re like, many years late. Moove already has such a world. IMVU is another one. Moove’s started in 1997, so you’re … very… late…

It has its limits… in that you can’t host a large amount of people on your personal computer, you just haven’t got the bandwidth, unless everyone had T1 or better to their computers. Which, they do not Client-server is still the only way to go if you’re going to have large shared 3d spaces on the net.

Pixeleen Mistral is Prok.

Yeah, I haven’t always been the most dedicated reader of the Second Life Herald, but I have read it frequently enough. I’ve read a lot of interesting articles; I especially love the ones focusing on the griefers, and the “anti” griefers, like JLU. They are all griefers in my eyes. Griefers who call themselves anti-griefers are just hypocrites as well.

This article is pointless. So he’s found a way for pay-per-view in Second Life, and you don’t think it’s a patentable idea? Who cares? Why? At least the griefer articles had awesome comments to read, and certain people’s wild conspiracy theories to read. This is just boring

We can’t know if a patent will really take “years” — that’s not consistent with every experience. And just because it isn’t available yet doesn’t mean that it can’t be deployed now, like every cheesy plastic thingie on sale at the five and dime; as Desmond said, “patent pending” is the oldest gimmick in the book. Patents are more about trying to knock others out of the competition with fear of lawsuits, so it appears, than securing copyright, which is something different.

So FlipperPAY could well be hoping to GOM the SLCC stream and use it later, even much later, having a very read-made sale prospects list to use of people very eager to relive their memories of SLCC. The idea that he can’t do that today isn’t argument against him someday wishing to — and we never did learn why all these folks are after grabbing the content anyway. P.S. Jorus is an interested party, being part of the Phreak gang and SC regs.

Based on what I’ve read here and in other places, and what I already know of SL, it sounds more like Flipper is trying to obtain the patent for either the ability to change what would appear on a prim content-wise and/or the means or method to pay for the content to appear, not just video on a prim. Whether he will get the patent is another issue. (Benjamin Noble has discussed some of the issues better here: http://virtuallyblind.com/2007/07/19/ppv-patent-second-life )

Beyond the fact that software is usually not patented, the idea of seeking the patent goes against a dominant viewpoint of both the Lindens and the web. Basically, while most people are looking at being open and “information being free”, Mr. Peregrine is doing the opposite. I’m not saying either side is better or one side is good or one side is evil, just saying what the sides *are*.

And Pixeleen is right to tie-in the SLCC change in musician contract with the patent application because its a pattern. Controlling a musician’s performance by locking in a license is in the same vein, although not precisely the same, as seeking a patent on a SL script. Its still controlling content.

This isn’t even tabloid-quality, this is Fox News level of “unrelated story” crap.

Are you green with envy, or is it just a feeling of inadequacy that causes you to do nothing but try and degrade others? Is your life that shallow? Oh and spare me the litany of all your alleged accomplishments in life, we have all heard them enough that it’s a broken record at this point.”—

Okay, what am I missing? The author of this article is called Pixeleen Mistral. Way to go with ignoring (or diverting?) Pixeleen’s points for the ubiquitous Prok swipe.

Anyone remember when PEER TO PEER (old technology topology) became a real winner on the web? Does Napster ring a bell?

The future of vitual worlds will not be a system like Linden Labs currently has. It will be a Peer to Peer network of end users logging into a world created on their local machines. This network eliminates the need for what Linden has created and brings true vitual sharing to the masses.

Linden will have their place, albeit a very small technical corner in the
metaverse.

Anyone putting the millions into this technology will produce a real winner. And for your information… I believe it’s on it’s way.