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Originally Posted by Persephone Milk Permission checks should be implemented before this is released.
As somebody that has had one of their items copied for export to an open server, this tool really troubles me. The fact that it copies the entire sim, without regard to the creator of items, is irresponsible. At best it will breed laziness and the inadvertent copying of items that one does not have permission to copy. And the less-than-honest will have a built in excuse "Oh wow, that was your item? I am so sorry. The tool just copied everything. I thought it had all be created by our design team."
I realize that it's painful to move a sim from SL to an open server. It might even take days to work through all of the link sets. But really, is unleashing a tool like this, which has the potential to hurt thousands of designers, really justified by the handful of people that would use it for legitimate purposes? It's not enough to say "Thieves can already copy content." This tool makes it incredibly easy to copy massive quantities of content.
Rezzable should pause, and act with a sense of responsibility. |
I can't hit the agree button enough. There are definitely legitimate uses for a tool like this, but freely releasing it open source and with no permission checks is completely irresponsible.
But I doubt that being a good citizen is something RightAsRain was aiming to do in the first place.