New blog post on LL's Content Management Roadmap

I apologize if this comment has spawned an entire discussion and I'm just chiming in now (I haven't finished reading this thread but wanted to add...)

I definitely agree with the observation quoted above. The blog post was fairly transparent in what they "truly were saying", although littered with the usual "we really do care" statements.

At the heart, LL is about making money and every new policy fashioned or rule set down is designed specifically towards that end (which I have no issue with since LL is a business), and then sugar coated in something they hope the SL masses will digest.

Unfortunately, some policies, this one in particular, will cause considerable disharmony on the grid and between creators.

While I am all for protecting intellectual property and putting an end to content theft and sale/distribution of textures without the original creator's permission, twining such "great things" with an "LL authorized vendor program" is despicable.

On a final note I'd like to add that there is always a way, and people are industrious and clever when the need is there. In other words -- there will likely always be at least one tool to legitimately copy (for the purpose of transferring to another Grid) one's sim/possessions etc. I don't think we need to panic yet... after all, it's LL who is spearheading their own anti-theft device (bad, Elric, bad)

Well of course there will be always ways, short of connecting to sl only through LL owned terminals, it's basically wishing that the river would flow upward...

I do not disagree with the rest of the post but I vehemently disagree with the money part. This has nothing to do with making money, if they want to make money then they concentrate solely on raising concurrency and keeping the general population happy. Jack, Jill, Tom, Dick and Harry is presently, has always been and will always be where the cash is at. Some Corporations come, but never in big numbers, they play for a little bit and then they leave. What is there for a company to do here? Is there anything here that can actually help ANY company to make more money, instead of just being cash outflow?

The ONLY possible use is a 21st century version of netmeeting and how many companies actually need that or are interested in doing it virtually when for a little bit more they can have actual video conferencing? Never will be as much demand or as much ready cash as Harry Homeowner. We peaked out in October with nearly 27,000 personal islands and all of mainland generating tier. 27,000 islands and yet only 70,000+ concurrency. If SL could handle 250K concurrency then, how many islands would that be? 100K+ with most generating nearly $300 per month, on top of a couple of more mainland continents generating tier and all of the $L traded?

But no! Instead they are blindsided by Phil's vision of the 3D internet. He had the right idea but totally missed the audience. What is really pathetic is that they still have not gotten the hint. Worst recession the world has ever seen and yet look at how many mom and pops are still forking over a few hundred dollars a month for being here. Even in this recession there would still be more IF AND ONLY IF SL could stand the traffic but they can not. We are down to 60K concurrency now and yet it takes much, much longer for everything to rez around us now and the asset server is slower then ever.

I remember when hitting 10K concurrency was a big deal and every milestone increase of 5K above that. I came in with the flood of people about the time of the Ansche Chung publicity and we easily had the demand even then for 250K online, but alas, the vast majority left in disgust, not because they were bored, or there was nothing to do. They left because they never saw the point of trying to fight your way through molasses to try to get to anywhere interesting, or repeatedly crashing when trying to talk to someone (or more then talk ).

Linden Labs has always been it's own worst enemy in their technical (remember Windlight? That one seriously curtailed the number of computers able to have an enjoyable experience here) and policy decisions. Every single one seemingly aimed at driving away their only viable market.

Content theft? That has always been a solvable problem. There will always be some leakage, maybe a lot of leakage. But leakage would have much less impact if LL had ever ramped up the number of employees in the DMCA department. Someone challenged them one time to prove that they actually had more then just a couple of people processing complaints. Just think of how nice it would be if a content creator noticed their product had been ripped, they reported it, someone looked at the complaint, validated it and pulled all ripped items off the grid and out of inventories within a couple of weeks? How many people would be willing to hand over their $L money to someone of less then stellar reputation if they knew they might loose the product and the money, same as in the real world when you, even unknowingly buy stolen goods. Instead, the content creators end up packing up shop and leaving in disgust after sitting and watching someone else profiting off of their own hard work for MONTHS of inaction and then many times, nothing is still done.

Any new policies Linden Labs puts into effect will still be worthless if no one actually enforces them.