Comments on: Linden Lab’s Baitbox Nabs 50 Copyright Infringers?

By: NebulaBlack

NebulaBlack — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:55:05 +0000

Nebula Life takes scripts and objects so not even scripts are safe any more. It’s easy to do, Neil even posted about it on his blog I think. When I saw it, Grey said he was already on it. But ripping scripts is easily detectable and will earn you a ban hammer quickly.

By: Ajax

Ajax — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:52:57 +0000

You got half the story right. LL did not re-instate the offenders but gave some temporary reprieve while they review their complicity. All others were threatened with legal action should they return as an alt, and those getting the reprieve have only a few days to say goodbys. Also, LL is not the only ones making bait boxes — private vendors will be placing bait boxes in-world and using LL’s action to back up their demand that anyone who copies their private bait boxes be treated similarly. This is just the tiny tip of the iceburg — look for more stings to come.

By: The Dude

The Dude — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:43:24 +0000

No, he claimed that only people with modded viewer (read Cryolife, his own private viewer and derivates) were able to get it. That is not something that goes to his defense as he sells his viewer that have all of those abilities (pretty much undetectable Cryolife). But as somebody already said, only thing safe so far are scripts. Anything else is pretty much free to get (one way or another)….

By: LOL

LOL — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:33:04 +0000

He claims on his blog that only people with full perm abilities can retrieve the asset not anyone from a normal sl viewer.

By: Ssieth

Ssieth — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:11:00 +0000

This really is a problem the community is going to have to get used to… the issue that content has to be sent to the viewer for SL. As such there’s a hell of a lot of stuff that can be readily copied with little or no effort (textures, object definitions, sound, animation etc). The only items that LL can be reasonably expected to protect are those that run entirely server-side – which is basically scripts and not much else.

You can whinge, moan, leave, write blogs etc etc but really there’s practical limits to what can be protected under the circumstances. That’s really not going to change no matter what grid you’re on and it really isn’t worth anyone putting massive effort into banhammer swinging. What really needs to happen is a solid effort to develop a business model that works in the medium not in slagging people off for failing to try and enforce one that fundamentally doesn’t.

By: btw

btw — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:23:24 +0000

@All Seeing Eye

I won’t abadon Second Life,i’m a furry and there is a good furry community on here.

By: Gorky

Gorky — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:22:32 +0000

And the likelihood 50 of the infringers paid him 60 bucks for a viewer is slim to none.

By: LOL

LOL — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:00:11 +0000

Linden Lab is only doing this to show that they are taking a step to prevent copywrite and trademark issues on SL when they go before the judge in the up comming SexGen Suit. Even though thier little sing operation would be considered entrapment in the Real World. Too bad this sting was too little too late, if the lab can boast over 6 million residents and then ban only 50 of them for TM violations well thats less the 0.00008333- %

By: The Dude

The Dude — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:21:51 +0000

His private viewer have… The one you buy from him for 60$…

By: Gorky

Gorky — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:51:03 +0000

The thing is, the NeilLife viewer, as far as I know, does not have the ability to copy the asset to inventory. Its notecard import system will not embed items, and doesn’t have an inventory import feature. The imports were probably done with CryoLife.