Great way to have all your content stolen...

http://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=1191838

The crazy part about this service is that everything is stored on a private database. So you are basically paying $1000L to give this person ALL YOUR PRIM/SCULPTY parameter data that can be used to recreate your items via script. On top of 'backing up your builds' onto this persons private database, there is some unmentioned ceiling/limit as to how much can actually be backed up.

Now i am not trying to slam this person or call them thief, but this screams WARNING - UNSAFE - WARNING - UNSAFE - to me.

This is not like Second Inventory, which backs up your SL inventory locally. This literally puts all your builds into the control and ownership of someone else.

It will be interesting to see how long this service goes on before it hits a hiccup.

I will not be using this service. If i want to back up my prims, I'll send them to an alt, or use a back up service that deposits all the data on to MY computer, not a database accessible by a stranger and anyone they choose to allow.

Would you?

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With a list of keywords like this, you know he has to be on the up-and-up!

Back up your prim bitch?????

I've actually thought about doing a service like this for object creators. Some offline backup system where subscribers could poke a bot (that I'd write) and tell it which objects you want it to back up.

The technical parts of doing this aren't that difficult but there's so much paranoia about bots (!quit !Quit !QUIT!!!!11!) and IP theft and such that I'll probably never do it..

It seems like it's not for backing up scripts or anything, just primitive params which are public information people probably store without asking already.

http://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=1191838?

The crazy part about this service is that everything is stored on a private database. So you are basically paying $1000L to give this person ALL YOUR PRIM/SCULPTY parameter data that can be used to recreate your items via script. On top of 'backing up your builds' onto this persons private database, there is some unmentioned ceiling/limit as to how much can actually be backed up.

Now i am not trying to slam this person or call them thief, but this screams WARNING - UNSAFE - WARNING - UNSAFE - to me.

This is not like Second Inventory, which backs up your SL inventory locally. This literally puts all your builds into the control and ownership of someone else.

It will be interesting to see how long this service goes on before it hits a hiccup.

I will not be using this service. If i want to back up my prims, I'll send them to an alt, or use a back up service that deposits all the data on to MY computer, not a database accessible by a stranger and anyone they choose to allow.

Would you?

Why not make it a inventory back up system that backs up the data locally with encryption?

We already have that with second inventory or careful use of the copybot: Just add GPG. http://www.gnupg.org/ It doesn't care what the underlying data is, it'll encrypt it.

How is this different from any of the bazillion of the offsite backup places out there that exist in first life? That is, what's to say that this isn't actually being done with the best of intentions by someone who has the capacity lined up and the expertise to pull it off?

Yes, and more choices would be better for the market that right now, Second Inventory owns.

Why not make it a inventory back up system that backs up the data locally with encryption?

Of course people can break encryption but it does put a layer IP protection that will stop the gross majority of users from ever thinking twice about it

With a list of keywords like this, you know he has to be on the up-and-up!

Bitch? Whats with the 'bitch' keyword?

Back up your prim bitch?????