At the rate Second Life, and other open source projects like Open Sim, there will be no reasonable way to deal with one of the biggest issues facing Content Creators in Second Life and other virtual worlds. As of now Second Life is a walled off garden of creativity, and some people want it to stay that way, in the fear of change.
But is it really an issue? Over the years the sky has not fallen with piracy on the Internet. Why would it now?
Second Life content creators are facing what the RIAA and MPAA have been dealing with for years. People making illegal copies of there work. this is nothing new to the Internet, and nothing new to Second Life.
On the Second Life Grid piracy is wide spread, and for Content Creators not very manageable by themselves. There is need for a middle man. Content Crawler, a system that crawls the Internet looking for copies of content that may have been used illegally. This would allow for content creators to better police there own content. keep in mind most of the content in Second Life that gets stolen is resold, not for personal use like other content on the Internet.
One thing is certain, Second Life’s economy will be effected when the Open Grid comes online. People will freak out, but nothing will really bad will happen. Things will scale, audience will grow, and the piracy will grow with it. People just need to embrace the change before it happens, and not fight it for many years to no avail *Is looking at you RIAA and MPAA*.
