Potential Corporate Customers and Adult Ratings in avocatio virtualis

I have a blog post response about those potential corporate customers, and adult ratings.

I have outlined the problems and some possible solutions as well as another method to monetizing content in Second Life, and why this current "solution" is really more about selling mainland and very little to really address the adult content problem.

http://minervan.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/the-potential-corporate-customers-and-adult-ratings/

Submitting content....

I dunno about that.

worse still is the thought of our scripts being handed over to rogue servers willy nilly.
if sim owners have an option to disable such and such content from their standalone sim, i would hope content creators would be afforded a similar option.

You can just opt out. And I have provided in this idea, that unscreened content is opted out by default. So your content is staying here if here is where you want it.

Those who don't want to opt out, don't have to. It is you who is saying "OMG, you cannot have a choice to sell outside the Main Grid". and that is wrong.

Anyway, the situation is easily solved by the fact that LL is charging high prices and only selling the standalone to the corps.

Opensim is nowhere involved in this idea.

The options are simple:

LL is selling a standalone Second Life in response to the corporates who didn't buy SL, who on exit interviews said "too much sex" ...

The corporates want content. So do you think it is better to let

Rivers Run Red (the FIC)

Sell them that content - alone, and as you have no ability to compete with them for content, you are locked out by default -

or -

Have a way to opt in to sell your content to the corps that LL was lamenting over losing, with a rating system, obsoleting the Ursula method of "push people into buying land" -

or -

Suffer the current solution until some other company comes along (probably Amazon sticking Opensim on their turnkey solutions and letting you use their payment system, filters and search functions.)

Your choice...

Your scripts aren't being handed over willy-nilly - because again as I said -

UNSCREENED CONTENT IS OPTED OUT BY DEFAULT -

Don't screen your content. You will stay on the Main Grid, and your scripts will only stay on the main grid. No worries. Your scripts are safe.

Because content creators have to pay - and they are screened - and they have to sign a contract - and the content is vetted - it is submitted for an approvals process - this really should be the case with all PG stuff at the very least, to allow only PG content in PG sims.

All the local content on the Main Grid can continue as before. No change.

But of course, you are right to worry - because people who wish to move between grids, and there will be many, will insist that they take their stuff with them. And they will ask you to rate your products. However I feel it is an unfounded worry - the risks are handled in much better ways than they are right now.

This has another good and unintended effect.

Kids selling on the Teen Grid can sell content back to the Main grid. Giving them more money in their pockets to play on the TG. They can also buy Main grid merchandise, giving the teens more choices without a grid merger.

This also allows educational institutions buy better and more varied content for sims that have no choice but to be hosted in house - say you have a class of seven year olds - due to COPPA laws no child is allowed in Second Life under the age of 13.

Not only that - high school classes which have kids between ages - mixed classes between 17 and 18 years of age, have some of their students shoved onto the main grid. Hence they also see the Teen Grid as not a very good solution.

I think its all a very clean solution Everybody wins. I like solutions where there are no losers

1. i only mentioned it once
2. the all or nothing aspect is unappealing. basically, if i elect to share my content on the maccas grid then i have given ll eternal permission to pass my content on willy nilly till the end of time. who knows, in 6 months every opensim startup on earth could be running our scripts on their bedroom sim servers.
3. i believe coppa is no more.

After reading this from your blog:



It really sounds like you just want to squish the non-professional content maker. Those people who surf google for textures and cannot produce their own. You also want to lock down the content creation process, thus stifling it, eliminating small time producers.

I think you are all about stifling creativity from the masses and reducing the content creation pool to only highly skilled professionals.

Much easier to line your pockets that way.

no, it isnt that.
i think its an overdose in altruism.