New blog post on LL's Content Management Roadmap

This situation seems like the test case for LL's proposed content management. Items that were restored never worked properly again. Broken content might just remain broken permanently.

I skimmed over the blog regarding the content seller programm.

Im somewhat terrified at the first moment.
The rules they try to implement for this are, in my eyes, a bit far off and i have to agree with the concerns about the treshhold and good standing part.

Althought i never had a suspension i know about 2 cases where a false AR lead to a suspension. All that because the the ARed Person was not able to understand what was going on ( language problem). Both are content creators and accordingly to the plan it seems that they will be left out from the programm.

I also have a very small shop that i share with a scripter, we both sell very specialised products and are in the progress to expand buiseness as we see there is a demand.
But then im very concerned about the so called teshhold you have to pass to be part of the programm. It seems that this may be able to stop us right in our tracks.

Somehow ... and thats my Impression it nearly looks like as the established Content Creators might have found a way to finally stop newcommers and eleminate them from the general market. Also i think cause its in their best interest to get this rule on the way, we might see only a few leftovers after the impact.

Im really start to think that investing into SL was a bad desicion.

I wonder if this will open up the way for LL to charge fees on what we are selling inworld much like XStreet does on that website?

QTF! I use Emerald also... and its got great features.. and no, i can't seem to find the copy code either. Another witch hunt for alternate viewers. I suppose They should ban the RLV also, since the Master/Mistresses can block im's to their subs? Get a grip. The people that take the time to write alternate viewers more often then not end up making that patches that fix the screwed up regular viewers. They fix issues that normally take forever.... were you around for the shoes/hair in the ASS on every tp you made? A patch was made in the Nich viewers thats now mainstream code. You should be GRATEFUL that people are making alternate viewers to make life easier, and fix the bugs that LL is too busy doing other things *read Adult content shifts & now the content management* to work on real issues.. TP's, disappearing avatars, LAG, failed border crossings... the list goes on and on. When the code gets updated for those things, You can normally thank alternate source viewer coders for fixing the worst of it.

This is the SECOND time i have seen someone call for a ban of alternate viewers, with out ever stopping to see why they REALLY are popular... great customer support being a #1 reason. Try Imming someone from LL cause their viewer has an issue. See how fast you get a response... then try Imming LGG about Emerald.. fixed, announced, updated, normally in 24 hours or less.

I'm just sayin

~Brie

I'm not *yet* scared -- but I too would love to know just what this threshold is. I don't sell a whole lot of stuff (My big content creation work is paid for outside of SL, using US$). The toy store and the plant stand are most definitely cottage businesses. While I make a bit more than Immy does, it's still not a huuuuge amount. So would I be out of this loop, too?

I could live with that, it would be a legitimate way for LL to raise income, as long as the 'sales tax' is low and it is only collected when items actually sell.

I'm convinced you see the world in a twisted reality. Perhaps its fear that drives you there, perhaps its popularity, im not sure, but let me set things straight here.Let me set things straight here.

We are NOT (duh) thumbing our nose at linden labs, we work COOPERATIVELY with them, that is the entire idea about this being OPEN SOURCE.

We implemented it (a while ago) with a permission check in it, to help guide people on how it should be used.Content Backup code has been available before the viewer even went open source, and its features are a necessity for many builders. This is why we put it in greenlife, for goodness sakes.


We also put in incompatability with other object exports, to help keep greenlife away from this whole mess.


Why keep content backup code only to people who abuse it? This lets legit users benifit from the good code that it is.

And if you noticed, the blog post by LL mentions the legitimate uses of such patch. As i mentioned before, you need to be focusing your yelling and hate at the people who steal items, not people who try to help.

((why is it so hard to make a good viewer these days?))

to help people who are just skimming

NO EMERALD DOES NOT HAVE COPYBOT IN IT

it lets you export full permission items. that is all.

and import or is that the preserve of SI?

Import has no permission checks. This is partially because we are unable to set the permissions we have when we import (it will always be full perm).
Only full perm items are exported, so anyone who imports it, will also have it full perm. One feature of this, is that it makes it easy for me to deliver my work to my boss, another alt, or another grid.

That's what I was interested in. It means I can fire up an alt, build in peace and quiet and then when finished move it over to couldbe to set up for sale. At the moment I have to make everything full perm by hand then move it (don't trust bulk perms in 1.23), then reset and test the settings and it doesn't always have couldbe's name as the creator if I've not used her created prims. Time consuming to the point of horrible.

ok I'm sold. Where's the download link and the page on how to do this - I need to start to get to grips with this marvel of technology

We also made our importer be incompatible with known xml formats of illigal viewers that do not have perm checks, just to help keep Greenlife out of that mess. But yes, there is lots of potential here, eventually (and it has already been done in a fashon before) you will be able to export your build, import it in a maya environment (where the tools may be more to your liking) and them import it back in.

http://tr.im/EmeraldDL

After reading the huge post from LL (for non English speakers too huge to understand everything that implies) I found myself not knowing what will be my future, I have a reseller from PixelDolls and a shop with cloth created by one of my alts – in both businesses I receive items full perm to sell (from PixelDolls and from my alt)… so now what? I need to apply to continue selling? Need to send any kind of form, or the form online is only to DMCA? I need to reveal my sales to LL? What are the next steps? And no, although I have those two businesses I don’t do much

That would almost make it worth buying and learning maya I like building in SL but the ability to clean it up to maya standards would be a godsend.

anymore... i just dont care.
ll already know what they will force upon us, and any talk of 'resident input' is the same old pony show.
i suspect they are trying to emulate the bluemars system, but 6 years too late.

Is the original creator's name kept after import?

Nope, there is really no way for us to set a creator name in the LL protocol. Not to mention that this puts a funny looking twist on sim to sim exporting.. so we just let the creator decide what they want to do.

After my post? About what?

The demonstrated that when they disabled half the sex beds in SL by mistake, and left it up to the creators to fix them.

There's no way to eliminate that ability, even by eliminating the open source viewer. People rip and cheat on all the big MMOs even though they run rootkits on your computer to try and block you.
The increase in bandwidth requirements and server cost that would be required for even a minimal quality version of this make it laughable.

If they want to emulate Blue Mars, they're nuts. Blue Mars is made of FUD.

I'm very excited to read LL is finally going to start removing all copies of the infringing goods. I am a bit curious about what will happen when valve submits a DMCA for all of their halflife textures. Seems like 1/4 of the grid will become "missing texture" but this is a good thing I suppose.

Right now though a copybotter has nothing to lose except whatever item they botted. Anyone who they give it to gets a free lunch. I really applaud LL for taking this stance. I'm sure the added user tickets from people wondering where their knockoff skins and clothing went will be worth it though in retaining some of the great content creators who were very disappointed with the old system.

Any sort of timeline or roadmap on when these things will be implimented?

Sometime after the forum is upgraded/replaced. Seriously, I am not saying this in jest. Linden Labs is great at posturing but now we have come to see that this is all most of their BS is. There is absolutely no logical reason that they were not removing stolen content before.

And speaking of the forum. Blue sure seemed kind of haughty when he announced that he was in charge of replacing the forum and we gave some feedback to the effect of "Show us, Don't tell us". Has anybody heard anything else from him lately?

I can tell you what will probably happen. Many of the smaller creators who bought textures in good faith from the large stores that sell them as their own creations will probably go out of business, as the items *they* have created will become "missing texture" and they will be bombarded with complaints from unhappy customers.

To those of us that are small content creators, unsurprisingly, this is NOT "a good thing".

Where in this grand roadmap do you see an indication that LL cares about the small content creators?