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Paging Kale: Cory Linden floats proposal for new SL permissions system
Cory Linden has joined the army of lemmings marching into the bottomless pit that is a personal blog, and while he predicts that the we scribes at the Herald will mourn this development, the fact of the matter is that we now accept it as inevitable fact of life — like flatulence, fornication, and death. [...]
Full StorySL modifies Terms of Service and EULA (sort of)
Well, at least they let us know when then introduce a new agreement. The new TOS seems like a lot of legal CYA without much thought to forging serious business partnerships. For example, how much are *you* willing to invest in a platform that keeps this clause in its TOS? ?7.1 Termination. Linden has the [...]
Full StoryGaming Open Market Hacked Again
GOM strike price. Hmm, Lindens need to do something about the deflation. As Dan Hunter has reported on Terra Nova, the Linden dollar/US dollar money exchange, Gaming Open Market, has been hacked again. Thankfully, the Lindens are working with Jamie Hale (aka Zeppi Schlegel) to rectify the situation. Obviously we are going to see a [...]
Full StoryRevenge of the Stratics Mods
Still master of his domain: A Stratics mod fondles his sensual red Swingline stapler while contemplating the next SLH writer to ban from his domain. Well, in the 5 days that have passed since the Second Life Herald published The Story on how links to links to the Second Life Herald have been prohibited on [...]
Full StorySL Political Correctness Standards Updated
Well, we?ve got new Community Standards (aka Political Correctness Standards). First thing I noticed is that there are some new rules which appear to be inspired by the Second Jessie War and the lag bombing of Jessie by One Song and the lag bombing and sim crashing of the Baku sim by the TechSols and [...]
Full StoryEXTRA EXTRA, OMFG! Stratics Thought Police decree that links to sites that link to The Second Life Herald violate Stratics ROC!!!
Those wacky little thought police at Stratics have done it again! Dyerbrook was recently charged with a violation of the Stratics Rules of Conduct (ROC), because in his profile he has a link to his ?Sims Out of Line? page, which in turn has a link the Second Life/Alphaville Herald. Never mind that Dyerbrook (a [...]
Full StoryFists of Ham part II: The Lindens
So last night I was taking a newbie friend shopping in SL, and even dropped 1K Lindens on a nice new buff skin for my avi, when some idiot that I did not know started firing off a bump gun. Well fine, lots of noise and smoke, but no push effect, so no harm to [...]
Full StoryFists of Ham! Starring SOE
Looks like a protest movement broke out in SWG, over the following. Some players found a way to dupe credits, and then began tipping heavily with them. Rather than do the sane thing and ban the dupers, Sony Online Entertainment banned everyone who received the duped creds (even if unknowingly). Confusing charges about SOE attempting [...]
Full StoryInterview: Cory Linden on IP issues in Second Life
Our legal editor Candace (a.k.a. Kale, a.k.a. Arboriasha Westerburg) has been exercised for some time about potential intellectual property entanglements arising in Second Life. Isn?t there an issue about downloading those Penthouse centerfolds as artwork for your club? And what about that music you?re pumping in? And given that your club is a revenue generator, [...]
Full StoryMMORPGs, company towns, and free speech
A few weeks ago we blogged Yale Professor Jack Balkin’s paper on free speech issues in the context of MMORPGs. Now attorney Peter Jenkins has contributed to the discussion on this topic with a paper in the Journal of Internet Law: “THE VIRTUAL WORLD AS A COMPANY TOWN: FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN MASSIVELY MULTIPLE ON-LINE [...]
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