Eddy Stryker Banned! Erm…Wait a Minute!
by prokofy on 15/11/06 at 5:35 pm
By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk
Sources are playing the Herald like a violin : ) Who’s on First? Where is the *copy* of First??? But who is First’s Alt??? This is typical at times like this when there’s a Big Story and everybody is trying to stay on it 24/7 but it keeps getting OBE’d (overtaken by events!).
First nimrod Yaffle was said by his own admission to be GeForce Go, complete with gotcha-on-Second Citizen screenshots showing his oopsies when he messed up with his various alts posting back at the official SL forums.
Now he’s denying it…wait..no he isn’t lol. Anyway, GeForce Go, the 10 percent Poor Little Match Girl working for pennies on CopyBot resales is gone from the grid. Missing from People List. No more. A mere memory — though her email apparently says “no action taken” — clearly it has been.
Prim Revolution, he of the communist insignia and victory-dancing, is gone, too — yet far later than GG.
Eddy Stryker, founder of libsecondlife was missing from the people list all day. Now he’s back on. This can happen for three reasons in Second Life:
a. Being a Linden and having the ability to make yourself invisible from the list even while logged on
b. Not paying your bills after the 7-day grace period.
c. Being “kicked” — the Linden term for non-judicial temporary bans of an hour or 4 hours or whatever — or banned, through due process *cough* such as it is.
Which is it?
We’re told Eddy just had to get a kind of admonition “not to go too far”. He was unavailable for comment. Meanwhile, other libbers speculate that perhaps it was merely something wierd with his account that can happen because the libbers monkey with the interface so much. “libSL exposes a lot of stuff that is out of the normal range of the client and it can have some weird results when the servers are not verifying the input,” says leading libber Baba Yamamoto. Expect more wierdness of all sorts.
I’m reporting live now from an intense meeting between Stroker Serpentine’s Sellers’ Guild, filled with some VERY angry content creators and store owners, and the libsecondlife folks. I love rumbles like this in SL because two wings of the tekkie-wikis are facing off — those tekkie wikis who make and sell content and have stores and know a thing or two about client this and server that, and those tekkie wikis who just sandbox around with the stuff, creating havoc.
So tekkie wiki Siggy Romulus is asking the libbers what steps they can take to become more responsible with their ahhh experiments.
Bolshevik Revolution, a new v-5 alt and libsl member, is griefing me by repeatedly sending me “friendship” requests. Not!
Static Sprocket, a scripting whiz, is saying, “So as content creators you need to focus on how to make your businesses succeed, knowing the fact that your content can and likely will be copied at some point.”
Meanwhile, some smaller or newer designers without the tekkie chops are sadly concluding that they are going to be kept out of business, unable to design and sell fast enough to stay ahead of CopyBot or its clones.
There’s been some ugly insinuations that the libbers or those around them could make CopyBot stop copying..but for a price. And some are willing to pay that price to highly-paid scripters. Sellers are really furious that the libbers have “let this thing out into the wild,” and their irresponsibility at causing such abrupt change, even if long-term, it is inevitable in the Metaverse has plenty of people hugely torqued.
Klink Epsilon
Nov 15th, 2006
No insinuation about it
I was at the protest outside LibSL today.
Baba had said to my girl that they could write a code to help us protect our content if we gave them money. I mean what the hell is that, so LibSL creates the source code/tools/whatever spin they put on it(for free) that then becomes CopyBot but then they want money from us to protect our creations.
Unbelievable
Cocoanut Koala
Nov 15th, 2006
Jerks. Extortionists.
LibSL = Public Enemy Number One.
And LL is in bed with them and sending them love notes.
coco
Prokofy Neva
Nov 15th, 2006
Yes, I heard this from several sources, but the leaders of libsl itself deny such extortion.
In fact, the entire set-up is extortionist because they always claim plausible deniability.
What I keep getting from the libbers is that they put their stuff up in open source, because as we all know, “information wants to be free,” and then anybody can grab it and do whatever. So they take no responsibility for it.
I wonder how the Lindens can countenance such a situation. It leaves the grid open to constant crashing, griefing, and horrors like this CopyBot.
There are some simple social solutions — not technical solutions — that could be in place, but are merely politically unacceptable to these freaks who have an extremist notion of “information wants to be free” that runs like this, “Information wants to be free so it can liberate everybody else’s stuff and terrorize them.” Nice concept!
The social solutions would involve:
a. making libsl invite only to shake loose all the v-5 alts that Huns and Baba are harbouring
b. put Baba on suspension pending review of his behaviour, including allegations of extortion and deliberate malice and disturbance of the peace
c. stop open sourcing the reverse-engineering
It’s bad enough that the Lindens allow such a laissez-faire reverse engineering program; that they allow it also to be used to crash their own grid and wreck havoc of their own internal economy really seems incomprehensible.
Bolshevik Revolution
Nov 16th, 2006
I have never been in V5. The closest I’ve come to being in V5 is being friends with someone who was in V5 for a week (and who had been in SL since mid-2004 after I referred him along with several of my other friends) before LL banned everyone in the group.
I am also not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the libsl project, or even the libsl group in SL. Again, the closest I’ve come to that is being friends with someone who is (the author of CopyBot, actually, who is another one of my friends I referred in mid-2004). I can obviously not speak with absolute certainty to his motives when he wrote CopyBot, but I am reasonably sure that his intent was not to wreck SL’s economy. Blaming him or the libsl project as a whole for that would be like blaming gun manufacturers for murders committed with their guns.
My “harassment” of you has nothing to do with libsl and everything to do with your well-known hatred of Commies. When I saw that the last name “Revolution” was still available I thought it would be funny to register “Bolshevik Revolution” and bother you, figuring you’d blow it grossly out of proportion, and it looks like I was right.
Not everyone who does something you don’t like is a member of the demonized group du jour.
Prokofy Neva
Nov 22nd, 2006
Imagine what a fucktard you’d have to be to burn an SL avatar name *just* on coming in and harassing Prokofy Neva. That is really rich.
And all these fake protestations aside, friending up known grid-crashers and hanging around meetings with libsecondlife riddled with v-5ers hardly looks like an exonerating situation and a climate for when you can protest that you have nothing to do with anything.
I want to note for those that follow these things:
Prim Revolution banned on the date of this story at the time of this story.
Eddy Stryker banned n the date of this story at the time of this story.
Are they related? Well, Nimrod says that Eddy paid him to suggest this — remember that awful transcript where John Hurliman was trying to set up a fake story?
So it’s possibly all a fake…except sometimes the best place to hide things is in plain sight.