Archive for 'Legal Issues'
The W-Hat Birthday: Cake, Ice Cream and Murdered-Hooker Bloodbath (2/2)
By Neal Stewart It’s the quick and the dead in Second Life. The murdered hooker I found at Baku today is not the murdered hooker she was yesterday. Yesterday’s corpse had character. A furry, she lay there with eyes closed and brows wrenched, as though her eternal sleep was wrought by nightmares. And who could [...]
Full Story‘R.I.P Ryan Dayton’ – Teenage ‘Air’ Profits (Part 2/2)
By Neal Stewart [Continued from Part I] Here is Part 2 of our interview with Ryan Dayton – the tech-savvy 14-year-old who claims to have made about $1000 US dollars in the 12 months he has been a Second Life resident. Ryan was banned 11 days ago when his mother revealed his real life age [...]
Full Story‘R.I.P Ryan Dayton’ – Teenage ‘Air’ Profits (Part 1/2)
By Neal Stewart I’m sitting at a vacant, shiny blue conference table in a meeting room at the top floor of Dayton Technologies HQ. Through the heavily-tinted windows I can see birds flying above the swaying palm trees outside. On the floor beneath me is the freshly-built coffin of Ryan Dayton himself. It is a [...]
Full StoryGwyneth: A decentralized, open-source Second Life?
When Gwyneth Llewelyn comes up with some food for thought, it’s usually not a light salad. At her blog she has led a herd of cattle into our living rooms, slaughtered them and impaled their carcasses on rotisseries, ready to be consumed. Her post ‘More thoughts on expanding Second Life® to the metaverse…’ outlines a [...]
Full StoryPutting the Pr0n in Second Life
by Walker Spaight As the lights went down, a hush fell over the crowd… Complete with obligatory poolside scene, RaAusar Powers’s Apollo Theater in Grizedale brought Second Life its first taste of streaming pornography this evening, with a screening of Sophie II: Anal Action before an audience of fifteen eager avatars. WARNING: Adult content follows. [...]
Full StoryExtra Extra! Love, Betrayal, Seized GOM Accounts and Bannings
Alyeska poolside in the old MoMo mansion In a shocking series of developments, Mr. Fairplay/One Song, Reno Parks, and Lord Charming have all been banned (possibly permanently) due to a dramatic conflagration with Alyeska Zamboni, an SL denizen romantically linked with both Baller Momo King and Mr. Fairplay, and a leader of the Street Killaz [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Linden Labs and Griefers – Hands on or off?
by Neal Stewart OKKKAY? One of the perks of working for the Herald, other than the sex, drugs and heavy metal music… and the power… and the riches… other than those, one of… and the fame…. other than those, one of the perks is being able to pass your forum posts off as Op/Ed’s. The [...]
Full StoryLinden Lab Supports Invasion of Your Privacy?
New friend…. or spy for your girlfriend? A look at the recent dust-up over detective agencies By Cienna Samiam My editor asked me if I would be interested in doing a story about in-world detective agencies. I scanned the forums and noted the several threads [1, 2, 3] on the matter, read Hamlet’s “Mc-Story” and [...]
Full StoryEditorial: Simulating Free Speech In Virtual Lives
“If Peter Ludlow is a journalist,then I’m a railroad tycoon whenever I play Monopoly.”– Jeff Brown, Electronic Arts – Vice President for Corporate Communications Neal Stewart comments on Eric Goldman’s draft paper ‘Speech Showdowns at the Virtual Corral’, where under-age cyber-prostitutes, free-speech, corporate censorship – and our very own Urizenus Sklar – are the topic [...]
Full StoryNeualtenburg – SL`s Most Hated Project
“On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, a democractic socialist republic.” At her blog, Gwyneth Llewellyn recently looked at some of the same virtual governance issues discussed in Urizenus’ State of Play discussion. The ever-misspelt Neultenburg projekt, of which Gwyneth is a key figure, has become something of a Bavarian [...]
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