On Thursday 02, Karen Palen wrote: > More to the point there is simply no way to determine which of two versions > of the object (or whatever) are the genuine "original". > > This is an exact analog of web site images today there are all kinds of > schemes which will detect the casual or inadvertent copying, but nothing > which cannot be defeated. thepiratebay.org provides endless examples of > this! > > Karen
You are talking about copy detection (where the original creator's name has been remove/changed) which is as you say is hard to do since it is too easy to defeat. I was talking about detecting modifications done by someone other then the original creator. Signing the prim would only stop someone from making/changing a prim/notecard and setting the creator to someone else. With public/private keys only the true creator can sign new/changed prims. There was a case in SL where someone used a full-perm notecard created by a well known content creator and replaced the contents, then distributed that new notecard to a lots of people to make it look like the original creator was saying the things in the notecard. People can use this to grief another user. -- Robert G. Jakabosky _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
