Posted by: Alyx Stoklitsky | July 24, 2009 at 10:05 AM

As you say Alyx, everybody head over to Alyx’s Trap Designs shop in Furness…

“BTW, this will be my last post to the Herald likely for awhile unless it changes hands or policies of inciting and participating in crime instead of covering it. Again, please implement my repeated request to remove my name from the masthead.”

Well, something good has come from this tempest in a teap..I mean tornado in a trashcan over BuilderBot.

Onward, Technocommunist comrades! You have nothing to lose but Prokofy Neva!

Why would anybody complain about a new product of this nature? There’s nothing groundbreaking here.

CopyBot still works fine, and is developed by the PN.
LibSecondLife’s *test* client can do this too: http://www.kabalyero.com/2008/09/13/how-to-copy-objects-in-second-life/
Lots of viewers have or soon will have content export, such as Meerkat: http://meerkatviewer.org/wiki/Content_import/export Any “content export” feature could be trivially patched to ignore permissions.

Worrying that this particular program gets open sourced is pointless. If it doesn’t get open sourced, somebody will make an open source one that does the same thing (it’s seriously not that hard). I hope it *does* get open sourced,
1) so creators stop clinging to their false sense of security
2) to enrich the open source codebase for other projects
3) for all the legitimate uses it has for me and many other people

Also, the code is open sourced, so someone can easily just fork it and make a “legit” version.

Though the panic over this proves how much of a fragile little, insecure world SL really is. and that’s not just the people.

People know SL is insecure, and putting your bets on a breakable, buggy, and very hackable environment is stupid as hell.
Which is why I have to laugh at people for getting up in arms about this. Originally, SL apparently didnt have this “economy” crap going on and was just a place to have fun and build stuff, so there was no need for protecting content in a manner that’s no required.
Either way, this is useless for many who want to back up sims, want to back up their content, more than likely just want your stuff backed up, not random cages, flashing cubes, and other peoples’ shit.

This is a screenshot of the SL map clearly showing a magical skyprimless sign over two parcels in Zindra near Kama Center which is to the left.

Since there was no sky sign or prims spelling out Mr. Nimrods name on or over these no build parcels then this serves as a tribute to Mr. Nimrod’s magical powers over Second Life. (Note: These parcels are now owned by a shape shop)

When Copybot came, the Herald reported on it, and more people found out about it. Rezzable’s blog doesn’t have anywhere near the readership. Many people have not heard about this yet, it hasn’t been on the official Linden blog, as a discussion about Copybot once was on the town hall discussion.

Pixeleen is out of touch with ordinary people, too. Lots of them are still concerned about Copybot, and waste their time with anti-copybot devices because they don’t understand they can’t defeat them, or worry endlessly and bother landlords, merchants, and friends with needless fears of Copybot (because it’s unlikely those with Copybot will bother with them, the grid is fairly big, and the amateur content production not worthy copying fairly large). And some have heard about this new bot, but with the plethora of bots of various types out there (bot inflation) they don’t distinguished or stop caring and are resigned. Basically, however, they don’t have as much information because…there isn’t as much news.

It also comes in a context where years after Copybot, with many, many more incidents of exploits occurring, people are more cynical and hardened and some have simply stopped creating.

There’s another important feature to this story that Dusan Writer was first to cover outside of Rezzable’s blog critically, and the Herald is very late in covering:

RightAsRain removed some people’s concerns the next day after his announcement by saying he wouldn’t release it and when it was sold for “professional use,” he would put in the function to “check permissions”. Copybot’s makers and sellers were just as cynical and nasty, but the difference is they didn’t pretend to mitigate their device the next day (RaR’s mitigation was cynical, manipulative and preplanned to make it look like he was “reasonable” and doesn’t solve the problem of malicious intent, of which he has plenty).

Glad to see the Herald as fully outed itself as leading the technocommunist revolution, and taking the side of those who incite or perform copyright violations, that helps to discredit the Herald for any lingering doubters, especially content advertisers.

BTW, this will be my last post to the Herald likely for awhile unless it changes hands or policies of inciting and participating in crime instead of covering it. Again, please implement my repeated request to remove my name from the masthead.

“Pixeleen Mistral: where do they get cryolife from?
nimrod Yaffle: That’s like a felon asking where to buy a gun”.

Indeed.