No, quite the contrary, the drama you will witness, today, tomorrow and in the future, simply means that the parents have once again left their children in the hands of the nets largest baby sitter, Second Life.

It’s the same situation that people face when putting images on their web site.”

Well, that is a non technical layman’s terms for it, but yes, and exactly correct. I think most people should get past trying to explain this to the wonderful “content creators” of SL. Even if it were possible to encrypt or circumvent the layer, Linden wouldn’t be legally bound to enforce any actions or provisions for the protection of end users clients. So in layman’s terms, it’s not any different than any other shared host either. And why should it be? Why should Linden be held to any higher standards than any other host? The above shows how the uneducated respond to matters. And to quite frank, they have a link on their site to the DMCA regs and obviously don’t understand, or have never read it themselves. Getting involved with true legal DMCA issues is better left to those that know the law. And the five year olds that put up that site pointing to the DMCA is the equiv of a five year old with a loaded pistol. They have no clue. They are more dangerous to themselves than anything else.

Another fine example of why I left SL. I’ve been saying for years. There are far too many children in SL. Far too many. If I were to argue what I felt Linden has done the least about, and the poorest job of, it was keeping the kids out. This is a prime example.

Ouch for you.

http://commonsensible.net/2009/11/if-you-sell-thrones-boycott-linden-lab.html

Yes, I know there is content theft. But, I really don’t believe it’s enough to sink a business. If it was, then where is all this stolen stuff being sold? I don’t really see it anywhere. Just tell me where to go and see it, then I will stand up with you. I do see a lot of junk in malls, but I don’t see anything of quality that I would recognize that is stolen. I think most of the stealing that is done, is actually people outfitting their alts. After they do that, they have copies of stuff and the temptation to give things to friends. I also see things that are copied to be able to alter them and make them usable. Personally, I just don’t buy no-mod. If it’s something I really want, I make it. But then again, this is another aspect of the content theft thing that eludes creators. Yo need great stuff and you need customer service and satisfaction! Make the most beautiful outfit in SL, make it no mod (cuz people gonna rip it otherwise) and then people are forced to use your body shape to wear it, or copy it so they can make it fit them.

No folks, you aren’t losing business because people are stealing from you! You are losing business because you are not innovating and you are treating your customers like criminals! Been awhile since I made things to sell. I saw that I didn’t have the talent to keep up. It was good stuff three years ago, but not now, haha. But, everything I sold was copy/mod and I had a policy of giving a deep discount if someone bought two of something to give one to an alt. Grow up people! Stop whining and blaming everything on someone else. And be creative! There is a thousand times more IP theft of real world items into SL than there is theft of SL IP.

Sorry to be so harsh, but it had to be said. Now drink your milk and off to bed with you.

I’ll be going to my usual sandbox tonight to carry on learning to build and script, albeit badly. That will probably involve some uploads of textures and will certainly involve me sharing my (admittedly dreadful) content around with my friends for them to then play around with.

When content creators give a crap about consumer rights for a change, then maybe I’ll support something of this nature. I don’t for one second condone content theft but I also don’t condone content creators who ignore consumer rights and reasonable expectations of fair use.

Incidentally I note that the poll on the Artists’ Voice website shows that so far, 50% say they won’t be supporting this protest and only 29% saying they will.