Also, this isn’t that crazy. Ignoring the fact that this stuff has been around for a while (as stated multiple times in the comments already) you could basically do all that manually anyway since you can edit linked parts and see their dimensions. Sure it takes a long ass time but it’s not any different. Anyone THAT dedicated to stealing someone’s idea is going to find a way that cannot be stopped. As mentioned in another comment, see “mp3″ for more information.

And yes, selling stuff in SL is just like selling pictures and textures on the internet. You’ll always be able to find the exact same thing for free somewhere else or just use photoshop to take out any markings that would show the original creator.

I agree with one of the anonymous posts. Anyone that wants to turn into a real business in SL needs to tie it in with RL if they hope to ever be taken seriously or have any longevity. At LEAST try to make your product have some functionality to it beyond just looking like something!

Wasnt really preaching to the choir but more to all readers who’d panic reading this article hehe

My choice of the name opf c0d3c obvious was not a stab at you, but more of a hint to everyone else, that this is nothing new. Granted tho, this little device does take out a LOT of manual work so in a way it is new… Maybe I should have chosen a better name to use here. Sorry ^.^;

lulz

You’re preaching to the choir there.

I’ve been selling my PrimUstor product for almost a year now. which although it was designed to be an independant inventory storage mechanism (outside of LL servers for prim parameters), does also double up as one of these prim replicators (inevitably). I have sold approximately 75 of these in a year.
Please consider that these are the closest thing that we will ever get to an inventory backup system. LL / LibSL may one day give us the ability to make a backup of the asset inormation to our hard drives but since LL will never allow us to restore any asset without paying the due upload fees for the textures etc, something like this is the only way we will ever be able to reliably backup and restore content, and also in due course will provide and easy mechanism to transfer our own content between LL / OpenSim grids

I’m not even a techie, and I realise very well that anything you can see in SL, you can effectively copy.

The principle is simple… looking at this bike for instance, all data of prims, thier size, shape, position and even any scripts inside and their texture are coming in trough your internet line and is processed by your computer to make it appear on your screen.

At virtually any stage in that, the data can be read out by an external script or program to be able to exactly replicate the objects, and then even WITH all scripts and textures, as opposed to this device. and yes WITH all permissions.

And that has been possible since the first player signed up for Second Life and rezzed his first prim on the first sim.