Archive for November, 2006
Banned CopyBot Girl GeForce Go’s Identity Revealed?
Is a former cornfield resident an alt for GeForce Go? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk nimrod Yaffle’s sister? Reports at the Second Citizen web site forums indicate that CopyBot salesgirl GeForce Go may have had an alternate identity – the well known nimrod Yaffle. These reports have raised some eyebrows since nimrod was originally [...]
Full StoryCory Linden Stands With Crowdsourced Libbers
LL to address CopyBot rights management issues sometime next year? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk the (now missing) GeForce Go removing Copybot vendor from Manitoba sim “i will NOT be adding anymore products until LL amends SL to entirely negate copybot and similar technology – lip service to the TOS is not enough. second, [...]
Full StoryCopyBot: “Prim Dong Without Functionality”
Baba Yamamoto’s Bots: All Dressed Up And Nowhere to Go By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk Tableau tonight is dark and closed to teleportation, with only one green dot on the island map. Usually the upscale boardwalk shopping sim built in the weather-beaten Cape Cod style has a dozen shoppers browsing the stores of some [...]
Full StoryCopyBot Store Closes; So Does Linden Thread
Photo by Wrestling Hulka By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk A subdued GeForce Go, a would-be bot vendor, closed her CopyBot sale operation in Manitoba this evening, surrounded by a seething mob shouting that she was ruining their Second Life, and concerned that if she did not close she would face consequences from the Lindens [...]
Full StoryMASS UNREST IN MANITOBA!
Sim crashes and protests at the copyBot shop by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Mario particle lag bombs used to crash Manitoba sim Hordes of angry avatars converged on Manitoba sim today after metaverse citizens Prim Revolution and GeForce Go set up shop in-world to sell the copyBot – a tool that allows for easy [...]
Full StoryHUNDREDS OF SL STORES SHUTTER DOORS!
By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Dept.Hundreds of stores were shuttering their doors tonight all over the grid of Second Life in protest against CopyBot, a cloning agent devised by a reverse-engineering team called libsecondlife. which evidently did not go back in the box when its designers summoned it last night. Angry residents quickly pulled out [...]
Full StoryElf King Wayfinder Leaves Second Life, Elf Clan Disbands. IBM Chairman Palmisano to Address Troops in Forbidden City.
Out with the old and in with the new. “It’s like the end of LOTR” In what is one of the saddest days in Second Life that I have known, Wayfinder Wishbringer, long time Second Life resident and ruler of the Elf Clan leaves second life today for parts unknown. Elf Clan, which boasted over [...]
Full StoryBots Back in the Box?
Baba Yamamota’s alt showing off his cloning capacity on Pi last night. By Prokofy Neva, Copy Desk After huge public outcry about the replicating facilities of a new toy created by the controversial libsecondlife, the bots have been put back in the box, Jesse Malthus, a member of the 88-member libsecond group announced today. In [...]
Full StoryIs LL’s Copy Protection Pwned?
Content shall go forth and multiply by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Metaverse citizens who hoped to make a living selling objects may want to consider a different line of work – a new tool is making the rounds that makes it trivial to defeat Second Life’s copy protection of objects – as well as [...]
Full StoryIs Linden Lab Shepherding Electric Sheep to Greener Pastures?
Why reverse engineer when you have the API handed to you? by Isaiah Truth When the Herald broke the news that LL had given an inside tip to a special developers’ list enabling some to get an unfair advantage in purchasing the dwindling supply of low cost private islands, a chastened Philip Linden said he’d [...]
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