Did you know? Responsible CryoLife users exist in the virtual world of Second Life. Well, at least that is how I understand what one commenter said in defense of his use of CryoLife. Basing from his comment, responsible CryoLife users like this person use CryoLife as a defense against griefing or griefers and for circumventing Second Life’s permission system by removing or getting rid off the “no copy” status from items thus making them copiable.
For those of us who have legit uses for it (especially recoloring your avatar) it’s a life saver. Or to get rid of no copy status from clothing items so you’re not forced to risk ruining them.
Awesome! Circumventing Second Life permission system is, undeniably, a very responsible use of CryoLife. Wait! Items in Second Life can only be either No Copy/Transfer or Copy/No Transfer not both, right? So, if you get rid of the No Copy status then you are making the item Copy which will make it Copy/Transfer, right? Isn’t that almost like Semi-Full Perms already and why stop there? Why not get rid of the No Mod status too and make it Full Perms? Oh, I forgot, this person is a responsible CryoLife user and because he is responsible a status of Copy/Transfer on an originally No Copy item is good enough for him/her. Isn’t it AWESOME? Making No Copy items Copy! WOOOHOOO! A lot of people will surely like that kind of responsible use of CryoLife.
By the way, don’t forget the word “legit” because, it seems that, making No Copy items Copy is one legit use of CryoLife and that it is being practiced by responsible CryoLife users. Please note that responsible CryoLife users don’t steal they just make No Copy items Copy by getting rid of the No Copy status. They maybe violating Second Life’s TOS by using CryoLife to bypass Second Life’s permission system but they are not stealing, right? And, I guess that makes it a legit use, right?
Knowing how responsible CryoLife users use CryoLife is quite interesting. At least now I know how responsible they are in their use of CryoLife in Second Life. Remember, responsible CryoLife users will just alter an item’s permission like making a No Copy item Copy using CryoLife. They will never ever do something irresponsible like actually stealing it. Irresponsible CryoLife users may be doing that but not the responsible ones.
Now, I’m wondering what other responsible things a responsible CryoLife user can do with CryoLife! Any ideas?
As far as I know, CryoLife is no longer being developed nor supported by its creatoer, Cryogenics. One Second Life resident even calls CryoLife “an obsolete viewer that is no longer useful for any purpose other than content theft“.
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Tags: content theft, cryolife, No Copy, No Transfer, Second Life, Second Life permission system, Second Life TOS, TOS
Let’s attribute that part about no longer any legit use to the right place: https://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=1738925
Given the Cryolife Author works with Lord Greg on the Emerald Team I would say that makes Lord’s statements pretty darn credible. Not to mention the Cryo bot and Cryoban were made possible by the Cryolife author compromising it’s workings so it can be detected.
I wonder why Linden Lab remains silent on this issue and refuses to put language in the TOS making use of permissions bypass clients unauthorized for connecting to the SL Network.
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That’s not content theft. You aren’t turning around and giving it to everyone and their brother. With these abilities come responsibility to not screw over content creators and wreck the secondlife economy.
And again, cryolife is not doing anything new by allowing this. A perfectly normal program called GLintercept does all of the same things. In the end people are going to have to accept that nothing is safe if someone is determined to obtain or modify it, and they’re better off not worrying about some tiny little percentage that’s not going to affect their sales one ounce. If you want to prevent clothing items from being stolen, turn on your clothing shield and use greenlife. Also insist that your customers use the client and perhaps provide a link to it in a notecard with every sale of your items.
If everyone takes some responsibility instead making knee-jerk immature reactions, you may actually slow down content theft. Handing out cryo-kickban scripts is no where near an effective means of doing this, cryo is but one of many clients capable of these things. Vlife is another you rarely hear about which also includes the ability to crash people. Sapphire, the new client made by the creator of cryolife, is an improved version of cryo that offers all of the same old features plus many new ones.
So instead of focusing on old clients that nobody uses any more, why don’t you target the ones that are current and being updated?
Also just in hopes LGG answers on this.
He mentions:
“Therefore, since the only additional features cryo life has that can not be found in Emerald or another free client, are for illegal purposes, I consider it OK to ban them all on the spot.”
Yet, emerald does not have physics interceptors.(Probably the single greatest feature I’ve found in any client. It is virtually lagless and superior to any shielding system imaginable.) LGG, why don’t you add physics interceptors to emerald?
The Second Life permission system is totally bogus. On the one hand, it fails to protect people. On the other hand, I lost all my property when LL screwed up my credit card, with no backup, nothing. Let’s not even get into all the great creations that have disappeared when other people did this.
And over the last four years that I’ve been a part of it, virtually nothing has happened: the world is still laggy, the graphics still sucks, the scripting model still sucks, and the user interface still sucks. Well, actually something has happened: a lot of fun, smart people have left and it has gotten more boring.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but worrying about whether someone can steal your textures is like worrying about pickpocketing while you’re on the Titanic.
I agree with mike. Second Life uses opengl, therefore any texture you see (or don’t see) in game can be easily extracted. Linden Labs doesn’t encrypt data or even begin to protect your ‘intellectual property.’
You can’t really blame the gun for someone using it. I like the fact that cryolife made moving a few thousand items I made from one avatar to another incredibly simple when I wanted to make an alt. I set out my items, and essentially used it as a batch process for migrating them. Nothing stolen, nothing distributed. My other alternative would have been to locate every item, and use second life’s confounded inventory system to try and move them individually.
I will grant that most people in second life don’t have a legitimate use for it, nor do they really create anything.
It is, however, humorous that many people who claim to produce original work, stole textures from around the internet and appropriated content from other sources, bringing it into second life and labeling it as their own. Digit Darkes, for instance, plagiarized the DC shoes label for her store, but no one said a word. Armidi rips off the versaci, dolce and gabbana, victoria’s secret, new port news and aeropostale catalogs regularly, yet, no one complains about that.
Overall, I think it would be accurate to say that maybe .5% of the content in second life is actually copyright-able by the person claiming to have created it.