Noelle Delaunay

Of course does LL own copyright of images taken of their own software. But apparently we disagree here and won't get further.

No, you wrote an interpretation of fair use policy, but my reply was to "fair use only applies to copyrighted material and since screenshots in SL are NOT copyrighted, fair use has no bearing on anything." He says that Screenshots aren't copyrighted in the first place so this would not be about fair use, and I quoted LL saying that they grant copyright permissions as long as they respect the privacy interests.

"This policy gives broad copyright permissions for snapshots and machinima, but asks that you respect the privacy interests of members of the community. " I'm really not sure what is unclear about this. LL does not give copyright permissions unless you respect the "privacy interests of the members of the community." So YES there IS a copyright claim. What are you disputing here?

No. That is NOT what I said. It can be almost impossible to purge information hosted on some shady server. What I said was that SL could purge the site from coming up on Google, based on copyright claims.

"This policy gives broad copyright permissions for snapshots and machinima, but asks that you respect the privacy interests of members of the community. " (http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Snapshot_and_machinima_policy#Copyright_Licenses) Do you think that a snapshot with a malicious intent to disclose private information respects the privacy interests of members of the community? Looking forward to hearing from you.

No. Fair use would be about the process of publishing the picture.

I'm still waiting for the argument why publishing screenshots with malicious intend (for example disclosing private information) falls under fair use policy. But all there is is polemics.

Well it's a bit silly to accuse someone of not knowing about fair use policy when they were the first ones to even mention fair use policy in this thread, isn't it?

Are you blind? I mentioned fair use policy like 10 posts before yours But let me quote, maybe you are in fact not able to find it in a thread consisting of 3 pages. So here you go, you are welcome: "So you're saying that publishing screenshots with the intent of disclosing somebody's private information is covered by fair use policy, because this would be the only case where a screenshot does not impose a copyright infringement. Ridiculous."

As I (actually already) stated, if you want to say that publishing screenshots with the intent of disclosing somebody's private information is covered by fair use policy.

Don't distract from the core of this discussion, which is that you said that those screenshots are not copyright infringements.

So you're saying that publishing screenshots with the intent of disclosing somebody's private information is covered by fair use policy, because this would be the only case where a screenshot does not impose a copyright infringement. Ridiculous.

Better just keep reacting to posts. A quick google search would have saved you the time to actually write out stuff.

You denied that screenshots impose a copyright infringement, and I showed you arguments why they are. The ToS have nothing to do with whether something is or is not a copyright infringement.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. There are lots of "let's play" on youtube. And surprise. Every "let's play" on youtube is a copyright infringement. The thing is. The creators don't have an interest in taking them down. They're still copyright infringements. Just like screenshots.

That is apparent. Btw, a screenshot can be easily interpreted as copyright infringement.

What is posted on that site is likely to infringe LL copyright. LL can purge the site from google. Easy. Got it?

If the platform is what I think it is (don't mention names or links please) then I would try filing a ticket with LL and make them aware. This is mostly about the fact that they do not take down personal information posted by someone else. Probably LL would be successful in having the site purged from google results at least.

If you were honest you'd admit It's just a rant out of saltiness. I mean, if I were making good revenue with a sales strategy that others view as too close to gambling (rightfully) and somebody took that away from me I'd probably be salty, too. Everyone is salty when revenue is taken away from them. How about you just adapt?

If people claim that sellers are going to make less money after this change then it's only because they're not forcing people to buy products that they don't want.

Have you ever considered trying to answer her question without accusing them (without proof or anything) of using pirated software? Just wondering.

So this question occurred to me during a Concierge meeting, particularly when it came to the question that gets asked over and over again, if the requirement for a Homestead to own a full region will be lifted at any point of time. The answer given (and I'm recalling this from memory as best as I can, I don't have it in writing and I please be corrected if I recall anything wrongly) was that people just wouldn't have fun with the lower prim limit and a Homestead was meant to be connected to a full region. And this made me really shake my head because I think residents who are curious about homesteads have a fair idea of what they can expect from a 5k prim limit ("You think you do, but you don't" - A few people will know what I mean with that unrelated quote.) When focus changed to if/when land prices could be lowered, it was said in a subclause that some people heavily complained last time Linden lowered their land prices. And sure it makes sense. Everyone who could afford a homestead but cannot afford a full region depends on renting a homestead from a third party. I wonder if the big players actively approach Linden and make sure that this requirement is kept in place. Any other opinions?

Not according to my experience. In my SL cloud people are definitely not at the point where they can't wear "nice jewelry". Of course this is subjective because nobody has the data, so I'm saying this based on what I see and on what feedback I get. (And yes I know that there are even people who rarely leave their sim because their computer is this weak that their viewer would just crash)

I'm making up a wild example as comparison. A company that saves all passwords as plaintext should not be asking "well how many passwords have been stolen in the past?" before they decide to change their behaviour.

Hi! I'm trying to understand the texture console and have a few questions: CRE - Wiki says "Texture needs to be created." Does this mean the texture has not been downloaded yet and does not yet exist as file on the disk? DEU - Wiki doesn't mention this state. What is this? How can I determine the bottleneck? I'm using a RAM Drive as cache location. I mostly see CRE and DEU states. Are there any values to tweak? Is it a single thread that downloads the textures or multiple? Is the amount of threads configurable? Would appreciate if anyone could help me out here!