Archive for 'Media'

JLU Wiki Leak: Second Life Abuse Report Frenzy

Real and imagined offenses against the laws of the Metaverse? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Resident conflict in Second Life is to be expected as quasi-anonymous avatars with different meta-games and loyalties play off each other, but detailed information about the extent of the problems have been hidden — until now. A partial snapshot [...]

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Role-Play Superman Tries Coverup Of JLU Wiki Leak

Kalel Venkman claims dozens of copyright takedowns — says Chan community corrupts minors by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk According to correspondence provided to the Herald, Kalel Venkman claims to have succeeded with copyright complaints to several dozen web sites redistributing the Justice League Unlimited “Brainiac Wiki”. The secret wiki was leaked after Venkman’s JLU [...]

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Wallace Linden Outs His Alt Account — Holy F.I.C. !!!

Alphaville Herald's Walker Spaight's secret alt is new Linden "Conversation Manager" Special to the Herald by staff reporter Idoru Wellman Wallace Linden shocked the metaverse with a tell-all Linden blog post acknowledging his close ties to the Alphaville Herald and his formerly secret alt account — none other than Walker Spaight. The announcement sent shock [...]

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Linden GTeam and JLU – Improper Conduct?

BrainiacWiki papers claim Lab staff leaks to role play game cops by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk A troubling pattern of what may be Linden governance team staff collusion with the Justice League Unlimited is beginning to emerge after the JLU's BrainiacWiki papers were leaked to the internet at large by the Wrong Hands infiltration [...]

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Justice League Unlimited’s BrainiacWiki Papers Coverup?

Kalel Venkman now playing whack-a-mole with file sharing sites by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk The leaked Justice League Unlimited "BrainiacWiki" papers have been yanked from 5 file sharing sites – an apparent coverup attempt by embattled JLU loyalists wielding copyright infringement claims – but it may be too late for this sort of damage [...]

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Justice League Unlimited Secret Wiki Unmasked by The Wrong Hands

Roleplay police recruit copies, distributes 1700-page wiki  – JLU superhero threatens DMCA, legal action by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk The Justice League Unlimited's secret Brainiac wiki used to track suspected griefers, record JLU meeting chatlogs, and plot strategies to entice the Linden game gods into banning players was published to at least 5 public [...]

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Metaplace – Pools Closed Due to Lack of Traction

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Tizzers Foxchase got in the last word in Metaplace Central -  “POOLS CLOSED DUE TO AIDS” – and seconds later Raph Koster’s user generated virtual world creation service closed permanently last weekend. What went wrong – and how did the end of the virtual world affect the community? Informed [...]

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Try All Your Chance – Banlink Passwords Were An Open Book

Rainbow tables, SQL injection, and why you want to use a different password for e-mail by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk The new Try All Your Chance blog details the frightening extent of the BanLink security problems that led to the Second Life ban list sharing site's apparent demise – and suggests that BanLink user [...]

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Egghead Studies Second Life Chickens – Clucks To Shocking Conclusion!!!

The Web Ecology of Sion chicken society explained by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Patrick Davison is part of several performance groups including What We Know So Far and MemeFactory and is also involved with the Web Ecology project at Harvard – exactly the sort of scholar that can bring meaning to the Second Life [...]

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Is ToToM the Metaverse Soundtrack?

Balancing creator, mixer, and consumer rights by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk While I was visiting Soviet Woodbury Saturday, the resident communists took time away from building their new workers’ paradise to rez a brightly colored dance floor and an impromptu worker’s dance party took place to an audio stream from http://www.maxxhitsbootlegs.com – a French [...]

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