A Poem By Extropia DaSilva

‘Twas another day in Second Life,
and residents were shopping,
the linden dollars flowing free,
from peer to peer were swapping,
when from 1st life a voice did cry,
“I can’t afford a lot,
so I shall bestow onto this land,
the gift of copybot”

The residents soon cloned and cloned,
with child-like passioned glee,
no builder was safe from the evil code,
that ran off with their IP.
They all shut shop, they would not sell,
if we would copy things,
that they themselves had nicked wholesale,
from Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings.

And when a cat sold copybot,
a riot soon broke out,
with placards galore, the crowd did roar,
“Cast that kitty out!”
And this being the land of Second Life,
our furry fiend was smitten.
A giant boulder was conjured up,
and smote that naughty kitten.

And now I come to Second Life,
but what is this I see?
Twenty Thousand avatars,
all of them like me.

In unison the clones exclaim,
“Extropia is hot!,
We look like you, it’s a dream come true,
HORRAY FOR COPYBOT!”

Of course I say,
“You go to hell,
for what you do is stealing,
people work hard to build in here,
where is your sense of feeling?”

And of course I condemn copybot,
to steal is just not groovy,
now what was the name of that site that lets you download the latest movie…!?

Extropia DaSilva – will comment further on IP theft after she finishes her album ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band’. (http://gwynethllewelyn.net/article114visual1layout1.html#comment-628)

I also run a number of new player education sessions (etiquette, building etc) in my spare time, provide a sandbox for people to play with.

Those are a few things I can think of immediately, there’s probably more but it gives you an idea that there’s more to me than posting on the forum. Unfortunately, that’s all people do see of me, and they never seem to think about looking me up in-game some time and finding out more.

Lewis

So it is an honest question. I truly want to know.

Over at the Second Life Herald we have a long tradition (well, a tradition as old as the paper itself: three years and change) of giving out three avatar of the year awards every January for the virtual personae who had the greatest impa…

Lewis