Comments on: CopyBot Store Closes; So Does Linden Thread

By: Effulgent Brown

Effulgent Brown — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 05:02:01 +0000

I’m such a noob lmao,
noob
noob
noooooooooooooob

By: Effulgent Brown

Effulgent Brown — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 05:00:16 +0000

Um, I didn’t write that above, I just got copybotted, the person who jacked my name could have at least used spell check.

By: Gino McAllister

Gino McAllister — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:48:14 +0000

Wich is complete ignorent bullshit. I am a content creator and I learned it the hard way, my knowledge of 3ds max and paintshop pro helped out alot. I have NO payment info on file…… Does this make me a criminal now? I simply do not have a creditcard and LL wont accept Paypal alone.Thou I still pay my rent for my shops and my tier for my sim, thru landlords ok but these landlords are paying tier again to LL AND If they want me to I am willing to scan my driverslicence to verify who I am. But I am NOT agreeing to copybot. It is bullshit first class. Like handing the codes of a vault to a thief and saying: “its to teach him how to handle money”. Asif any thief of My own made textures woud ever learn how to use paintshop pro or other designer programs by stealing my stuff. Then it is BS LL states “like internet you can copy your pics and stuff for free there” Because on internet aswell I have the right and choice to protect my pics with tools provided by my providers. It is simply not right for any to be able to use a 3rd party program to read out his cache and this way steal our hard work. I worked hard to learn all I am able to create now in SL and to create textures and to build certain stuff is hard long frustrating work! THIS MUST BE PROTECTED!! And for stuff I own but didnt create… I PAYED CASH FOR IT! Copybot must be stopped. SL will never be the fun it was if there is nothing “unique” in there anymore.

By: Effulgent Brown

Effulgent Brown — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:24:43 +0000

Im not sure about this but it looks to me like the only users of this thing are people who create a fresh avie for this pourpose, it was bound to happen with the registration being wide open.

if something like this got out of hand, sellers of high end goods might just set up shop on islands where only “payment info used” avies can visit.

it would cut down on sales and create a two tier world where only verified avies can access lots of content

By: Digital Alchemy

Digital Alchemy — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:38:45 +0000

Copyright Infringement in Second Life; Mob Gathers

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By: Tech Beat

Tech Beat — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:59:57 +0000

Real Threat to Virtual Goods in Second Life

The many people who make real money by selling virtual clothing, houses, and much more on the online virtual world Second Life aren’t real happy right now. A program called CopyBot, which lets anyone copy virtual goods without paying…

By: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:41:26 +0000

Knockoffs roil Second Life

The commercialization of Second Life has hit a speed bump. A new software program, called CopyBot, allows residents of the virtual world to make exact copies of other residents’ creations. The knockoffs threaten the livelihoods of the many entrepreneur…

By: Clickable Culture

Clickable Culture — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:20:43 +0000

Second Life Copier Controversy

Ive been watching the controversy of CopyBot unfold over the last few days. CopyBot is a software tool that subverts the Second Life virtualworld system to copy inworld objects, however copies are neither fully functional, n…

By: tp

tp — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:22:30 +0000

people get banned from mmo’s all the time for exploit abuse, and this is pretty obvious abuse. It’s too bad they gave warning to the seller so they could liquidate and sell the land before they banned it.

I hope they delete the bot from everyone who did business with this avatar.

Having an open source SL is one thing, but people should have the option not to participate in what boils down to reverse engineers hacks on the code.

And what is the deal with LL supporting a group hacking the client anyway. From what I’ve read they basically acted like they were doing LL a favor then released information on how anyone can create a copy bot of there own.

By: SecondCast.com

SecondCast.com — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:17:33 +0000

SecondCast #43 – libsecondlife

Johnny Ming and Walker Spaight interview Eddy Stryker (John Hurliman) and Bushing Spatula (Ben Byers) behind the libsecondlife project which aims to create a stable, open source platform for third party Second Life development. However, recently one o…