Third Party Viewer Policy

"Linden Lab supports an open platform with opportunity for all. The flexibility of the content creation tools and open viewer allow for great creativity and innovation, but that openness also carries a responsibility for those developing on our platform and those using third party tools with our platform.
In our recent blog post Our Content Management Roadmap we addressed the responsibility Residents have to respect the intellectual property rights of others inside or outside of Second Life, and we urged developers of third party copying tools to adopt standard industry practices that protect intellectual property. Similarly, developers of third party Second Life viewers must act responsibly in how they develop and distribute their viewers. We are currently working on revisions to our policies regarding the use and management of third party viewers. To support those policy revisions, we will be implementing tools and programs to help us protect our Residents and their content, and enable them to have better, more predictable Second Life experiences."

 In recent months Secondlife has seen a rash of new viewers, some with great features others with some which could be used to spoil others use of secondlife like copybot-like features and phishing. Now Linden Lab are moving to create a registry of these third party viewers with the idea being to protect the secondlife user - what do you think?
You can read the full post HERE or join the discussion HERE