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Midas Bank Insolvent – Trouble On The WSE
L$ Spacebuck banking risks get real – liquidity crisis spills over to stock exchange by Jessica Holyoke The Midas Bank touches insolvency – creates WSE stock ripples As suggested in the comments on the SL Crime Wave! – L$3 Million Bank Heist!!! story, Midas Bank is another bank facing insolvency. Mr. Midas Commons owns Midas [...]
Full StoryStop Acting Childish
LL reminds residents they really don’t like ageplay by Jessica Holyoke What about babyfur avatars? In another 5pm post from the Labs, Ken D Linden reminds the Community that Sexual Ageplay is not allowed on Second Life. This is not the first warning – but this time the Lab goes a bit further detail and [...]
Full StoryWill the Discrimination Never End? Bush Calls for Ban on Furries.
by Urizenus Sklar, POTUS and Furries Desk I don’t know how we missed this, but we only just picked up the story via Raw Story, which in turn gets the story via Bloggers for Brownback in an article entitled Furries: A Twisted Freak Show of Utter Depravity. The Lefties at Raw Story think its a [...]
Full StoryLL Ducks Responsibility
Our world, your liability by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Will university faculty be held responsible for bringing students to the libertine free for all educational opportunity that is Second Life? How long until controversy spills over to real life for in-world harassment? Michael Bugeja, director of the school of journalism and communications at Iowa [...]
Full StoryDutch Politicians Furious With Prosecutor for Dropping SL Ageplay Investigation
by Luuc Writer Luuc Writer (Lucien Baard irl) is a reporter for the Tentsche Courant Tubantia newspaper in The Netherlands As reported in the Herald back in February, a Dutch prosecutor opened an investigation into ageplay in Second Life on the grounds that representations of child sex are illegal in the Netherlands, even if children [...]
Full StoryDutch Prosecutor Drops Second Life Ageplay Investigation
“child avi’s not realistic enough” Urizenus Sklar, Dutch Morality Desk As reported in the Herald back in February, a Dutch prosecutor opened an investigation into ageplay in Second Life on the grounds that representations of child sex are illegal in the Netherlands, even if children were not involved in the making of the porn. Ageplay, [...]
Full StoryDuranske Blasts New Linden Policy on the “Broadly Offensive”
Just wondering: Who on gopod’s green pixilated earth is in charge of Linden Lab’s legal policy and why do they seem to be on a mission to destroy the company? First, there was the Bragg vs. Linden Lab fiasco, which anyone who has been paying attention would have seen as an obvious legal trap for [...]
Full StoryMario Gerosa: “Stop the Criminalization of Second Life!”
It seems like every day there is more bad press about the moral and legal problems with Second Life. Ageplay, for example, has caught the attention of courts and media outlets ranging from the US, to the Netherlands, to Germany, to France to Italy. Mario Gerosa has said “enough is enough” and is fighting back. [...]
Full Story“Unconscionable!” Court Blasts Linden Terms of Service, Holds that Philip can be target in Bragg Lawsuit.
Yesterday the US District Court for the District of Pennsylvania ruled on two motions by Linden Lab in the case of Bragg vs. Linden Research. One motion had to do with removing Philip Linden as a target of Bragg’s lawsuit. The second issue had to do with Linden Lab’s terms of service, which says that [...]
Full StoryUpdated: Is Business Week Stealing Herald Intellectual Property?
Update: April 18, 10:30PM Linden Time As of 10:30 this morning the SL Herald attribution has been added to the BallerMoMo pic. Thanks to author Douglas Macmilllan for getting Business Week to fix this in a timely manner. As Prokofy Neva noted on April 16, Business Week is running an online article in which they [...]
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