Upcoming Changes for Adult Content: Answers to Questions

It doesn't. And when the Aristotle scheme was introduced 2 years or so ago, and we asked about CC verification that is the answer LL gave us as to why it wasn't sufficient. We've been asking what has changed but no answers have been forthcoming.

Until recently, I don't believe that big-SL-investors-Amazon have been classifying everything even vaguely mentioned The Gays as "Adult". But they are now. And now I am boycotting Amazon - including S3, which must mean you are using some client from two years ago.

Korean Internet users now have to submit their resident registration codes, the Korean equivalent of social security numbers, and names, before posting files or commenting on Web sites with more than 100,000 daily visitors, including YouTube.

Repeating verbatim JP Linden's response at the Educators' brown bag (and I accept that other things have been said since):

"The second part, ah, second component of the initiative is going to be an adult verification or age verification method where anybody that wants to get IN to the adult regions is going to have to go through either our - the age verification solution that we’ve been using for some time on a voluntary basis, or have a payment method on file, and if we could think of any other credible way to have sort of a proxy for age verification although we know it’s not infallible we would put that in place as well."

In his eyes at least, making people go through Aristotle hasn't been ruled out, and if LL can think of an extra way to age verify, they will. I suspect the payment method part will possibly be tied to some other measure, like how long you've been in SL, or level of expenditure, or some other straw they grasp at - or perhaps it will only be used pragmatically in the early stages, then abandoned for something more 'meaningful'. The fact that Lindens can't get their act together to come out with the same answer adds to the obfuscation.

I tend to think the CC dodge is just a way to keep the masses from exiting too soon, and totally crippling the SL economy.

I don't pay for S3.

Boycott = not give Amazon any of my money for any of their products.

LL pays for S3, probably with some of my money, but it's a situation I can't do much about directly.

I just don't buy anything from Amazon; I am a non-customer of theirs; a "never-customer".

Or it's simply a way to get more people to pony up payment information, and theoretically, more people to use it.

Looks like LL will have to block access to Korea, or require all Korean users verify:

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/04/youtube-korea-respects-privacy.html

Korean Internet users now have to submit their resident registration codes, the Korean equivalent of social security numbers, and names, before posting files or commenting on Web sites with more than 100,000 daily visitors, including YouTube.

Or it's simply a way to get more people to pony up payment information, and theoretically, more people to use it.

That too, again getting them hooked into life in Pornodelphia, making it harder to resist further data mining...I mean verification.

Looks like LL will have to block access to Korea, or require all Korean users verify:

I believe one reason the Korean Government is pushing this requirement across the board is because of concern over large numbers of young people getting 'hooked' on being online. More than one person has died in the past couple of years as a result of non-stop game-playing, and I think it's partly an attempt to stop people spending too much time online.

I have been invited to the next brown bag meeting on the above date. I have asked a few people here for some input as JP asked in his email to me if there were any questions to be discussed i could send them in advance. Therefore i have sent the following email to him and will also bring them up again at the meeting if no answers are forthcoming.

1) What is the The timeline - including dates?
I.e.: Confirmed policy released, baselined process for the move, list open, Ursula open for Land selection, confirmation of land swap, swap dates etc.

2) How is Linden Lab going to advise everyone that the list is open and how will you determine priority for land selection and how do Linden Lab expect us to move a full sim and stay in business in 9 days, is their a chance that this time of 9 days will be extended?

3) What will be the process for getting a plot reviewed and whether Linden lab will do a buyback of land if people affected chose not to move?

4) When will Linden Lab implement full age verification for the new continent or can you assure that PIOF and PIU as previously stated will be enough for account verification

5) When You said this in the Educational Brown Bag meeting: "and we’re also going to create a separate PG designation which is going to be an option for anyone that wants what you’d think of as a truly clean somewhat more maybe isolated experience", were you referring to cleaning up existing PG or creating a new level of squeaky clean PG? And to follow on from that

If the former, (a) how does LL propose to achieve that with Mature and PG parcels right Next door to each other? And (B) given that countless PG homes contain a sex bed, how does LL Propose to enforce PG status effectively?

If the latter, where are these new, squeaky clean PG parcels going to be? Will existing PG Be 'upgraded' to Mature to retain only three 'ratings', or will we have PG and super-PG?

6) When will LL stop all the rampant speculation by having one senior, informed Linden with Authority giving definitive answers? You don't need to analyse all the feedback to do that - This has obviously been in the pipeline for a long time, so you must already have reached Conclusions on some of these fundamental issues. Having the feeling that the right hand Doesn't know what the left is doing at the Lab doesn't inspire confidence, and we could be so Much more helpful if we felt we were getting a true picture of your plans

It doesn't. And when the Aristotle scheme was introduced 2 years or so ago, and we asked about CC verification that is the answer LL gave us as to why it wasn't sufficient. We've been asking what has changed but no answers have been forthcoming.

I'm sure OS can find some ways to work out the IP protection on Open Grid. It's not that hard to use standard encryption with a public key on the server and a private key by the user to encrypt the inventory.

In fact, encryption key technology is so much more robust and distributable than relying on a central player like LL to guard it for you. You will retain all your IP rights even if LL is sold to someone else if your inventory is encrypted.

Blondin, here's a question you may want to "identify":

Is there a plan B in case this program proves to be impossible to implement, due to organizational, technical or other reasons (in other words: is there an exit-strategy)?

Ummm, well, yes they do. It's simple, actually. LL goes ahead with this segregation idea, everything remotely adult goes away to Pornadelphia, age-verification processes fail, people cannot go to their homes, businesses cannot reach their customers, who cannot patronize most businesses. SL collapses in on itself, and LL pulls the plug. See? Simple!

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/73234/

when governor linden takes the mainland most likely they'll just leave our stuff there, they're not really known for controlling the land they currently have. Unlike islands this land won't just disappear, so I would hope that they'll do a bulk return at worst.

Well, that vulnerability in security is due to MD5 collision ONLY if they use the same MD5 hash is used as the hashing algorithm without rehashing to encrypt the data.

*snip*

So your inventory IP can still be protected by encryption if they don't use MD5 hashing algorithm.

/me sits back in awe.

That's why I like this thread