Make it go WOOF

- 1 litre of unleaded petrol
- Pour it on hair
- strike a match

- WOOF

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You just keep on believing that, and I’ll keep taking my monthly SL profits and converting the L$ to US$ which I send to PayPal to use in my Real Life.

all you basement dwelling SL addicted mothafookers already have aids anyhow,
so you were all doomed from the get go.

POOLS CLOSED! (very soon)

until then

THUGLYFE

http://www.thuglyfe.org/

Wow, all you toilet-room lawyers. I love it.

Well, I’m not arguing the morality of it, but the legality? Tell you what, I’ll transfer some stuff I “legally” own, withis is modify/copy/no-transfer and take to another grid. As long as I don’t transfer it to another person – I’m within my rights.

Sick yer lawyers on me. Wanna see it! (Entertainment of the most high).

LOL

If you don’t want your creations to end up on another grid: either head to the other grid and beat your customer there or… don’t create anything at all.

Meh.

Oh and “international law”? LOL

I suppose you’ll sick Interpol of those who make such infractions? I’d loce to see that news story:

“International terrorist murderer’s apprehension into custody was postponed, even though Interpol were within seconds of nabbing him so they could serve subpenoa against a virtual-world resident who copied his legally-obtained virtual toy from one virtual island to another. Details at eleven!”

“1.3 Content available in the Service may be provided by users of the Service, rather than by Linden Lab. Linden Lab and other parties have rights in their respective content, which you agree to respect. ”

You agree to that each time you connect to Second Life whether you like it or not.

Anytime you connect to Second Life you agreed to each and every license by any creator from whom you acquired content whether you read it or not. If your stuff on that other grid gets you in trouble then go ahead and file a lawsuit. See how far you get.

Oh, and btw, L$ has no value. You are not consumers. Second Life is a video game and L$ are game tokens. You are not even remotely similar to consumers. If you were you could go file a complaint with the government. Go ahead and see how that goes. Most people active in SL are felony content thieves now anyway so all this is moot. SL isn’t going to make it to 2010 so your complaints are pointless. Better start making your internet addiction counseling appointments now.

“Permissions” are simply things that you can do within the Second Life environment. They don’t apply to anything that can be done on another grid.

And one of the key things is that if you take an object to another grid, it is promptly stripped of all metadata. All permissions – even the creator’s name is stripped. And this is theft.

We do need a grid interoperable system. I suspect it will come through a web buying system – when you buy from the website, you will tick which boxes to indicate which grids you want the goods to be available on. Choose several and you may pay a slightly higher price. Tick the ALL box and it will, like a Fatpack, save you money.

But simply grabbing the gooods and running to the next grid where it will be stripped of the name of the creator who made it is, quite simply, wrong. Legally wrong and morally wrong.

To hear some people on this discussion talking, you would think that content creators are greedy, money grasping bloodsuckers panting to remove your last Linden. Wrong. Content creators work like stink to create fantastic things – for which they earn rates that are, by and large, closer to third world than first world sums.

Yes, there are exceptions – the few people who earn a decent living wage, and the very few who earn a fantastic wage. But by and large people are working ridiculously long hours in the hopes of covering tier.

You want your hair in another grid? Heaven knows I do – I have to film a TV show in an Open Sim the end of September! But like the campaign – “I’d rather go bare than wear stolen hair” – I rather scuttle like a chicken without my pet AO and look like a cartoon cutout rather than see the content creators who have created our amazing world damaged further.

One day doubtless grids will be interoperable and you will be able to take your goods from one grid to the next with metadata still intact. But until that happens – and until, concomitant to that, creators decide to sell in such an environment, transferring goods from one grid to another without the consent of the creator is, quite simply, wrong.

I been wearin’ it since 2007 and the gals just goes gah-gah to git a piece of me.

BRING BACK THE MULLET for gals n’ boys. ‘Nuff said.

I am speaking in terms of real world legality. If you buy it, you have fair use legal right to do with it as you please. If you take it to another grid and then start selling it – then it becomes plagiarism (not theft – no such thing as “theft” in SL or any virtual world unless you actually deprive the owner of that content) – plagiarism can be a legal quagmire.

The only way to prevent someone from taking what they buy from you to another grid is a) make it known before purchase that they cannot (and you must specify by name where they cannot use it) and/or B) lock the shit down as tight as possible, because then you can get them with DMCA for “reverse engineering DRM”.

On the other hand – even though “legal” in real world terms, if you take a product to another grid, the drama-eestas will blackball and basically tar and feather you in every blog and other outlet they can find.

You know: like the SL Fashionista world.

LOL

Of course the creators can make a prevemtive strike: go to the other grids first and take/recreate your stuff there. Then you have a real foot to stand on.

As for the news of Rezzable and others: that is all contract work. Creators did not specify in the contract that it cannot be moved outside the Linden Lab grid – so it’s all legal.