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Designing Worlds has long been troubled by the issue of the violation of intellectual property rights in virtual worlds – commonly known as content theft. We’ve explored the issue in a number of shows.
Now, there is a new tool on the market which claims to tackle one of the problems that is causing content theft – the use of illegal third party viewers which allow people simply to grab whatever content they want, regardless of permissions set on it.
To combat this, the Client Detection System, it is claimed, can identify residents using these viewers and report them to land owners and estate managers, so that action can be taken against them, if the land owner/manager chooses.
We invited a team of experienced Second Life residents – and a developer of the CDS to join us for a discussion of this tool. Is it really the solution content creators have been looking for? Does it raise troubling issues regarding privacy? Is it a good idea to concentrate so much power in the hands of a few residents, or is this something that Linden Lab should be doing?
Watch our show – and judge for yourself!
Prim Perfect 
I will tell you my judgement on Client Detection System (CDS) IT does not fully work, and it is not really controlled by Sim Owners. IF Sim Owners have it automatically set to detect,and Ban Copybotters, anyone who has been added to the Ban List by being detected of a copybotter, whereever or not they actually are are banned from any estate they try to go to set like this. The only way to get off of it is filing an appeal with Skills hak, which he owns sole control, along with his team over Client detection System Ban List, which has been abused 3 times already.
Two of my friends got banned, and added to the list for using emerald, and they admitted that during Beta Testing, that this could have possibly happend due to the fact they used a beta testing ban list to ban suspected botters who were emerald users but detected as neil life users. I myself was banned because I tried 3 different so called illegal viewers, but Changed back to 2.0, and emerald, ect. And He refused to answer, or appeal, which shows abuse right here.
CDS simply cannot be trusted, unless full power is granted PER Estate, Not per Networked system ban with them having sole access to the system.
Since people can easily bypass cds by disabling Media, and Possibly voice as well if it detects that method, Then it is easy for copybotters to slip right past the security system, and everyone knows this. There is no point in using the system.
Also CDS is in violation of SecondLife Terms OF service 8.3 Privacy violation. I did not accept any service from skills hak, or use any service, or accept any agreement from him. Therefore The privacy policy section does not Override that part of their TOS, or anything they are seperate things. Therefore it is illegal.
CDS also will not Protect creators, because I can assure you that anyone using CDS will pay the ultimate price in the future, simply because I am giving a list of Sims using CDS to everyone making them all public to everyone, and the copybotters will go there, and prove it does not work. Skills Hak Was offered to keep this information quiet, if he would have responded in a nice polite manor, but he refused, and hides behind the CCA, and ignorant creators like him that have only been here since early 08, when there are more who have way more experience than him anyways.
I think you will find that some of these issues are addressed in the programme.
For one thing, a clear distinction is made between copybotters (which is does not protect against) and the use of certain third party viewers (which it does).
On the programme, Ash Qin several times made the point that CDS supplies a list of names to Estate Owners, which they cane choose to ban or not. And they can make this choice on an individual level.
I believe there are problems with the CDS system – not least concentrating power in the hands of a few individuals, with no recourse to outside appeals.
But your comment concludes with the kind of threats against content creators that has had them so eager to use CDS and find some protection, no matter how flawed, against people who steal their content and abuse them.