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Eddy Stryker Banned! Erm…Wait a Minute!
By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk Sources are playing the Herald like a violin : ) Who’s on First? Where is the *copy* of First??? But who is First’s Alt??? This is typical at times like this when there’s a Big Story and everybody is trying to stay on it 24/7 but it keeps getting [...]
Full StoryBanned CopyBot Girl GeForce Go’s Identity Revealed?
Is a former cornfield resident an alt for GeForce Go? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk nimrod Yaffle’s sister? Reports at the Second Citizen web site forums indicate that CopyBot salesgirl GeForce Go may have had an alternate identity – the well known nimrod Yaffle. These reports have raised some eyebrows since nimrod was originally [...]
Full StoryCory Linden Stands With Crowdsourced Libbers
LL to address CopyBot rights management issues sometime next year? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk the (now missing) GeForce Go removing Copybot vendor from Manitoba sim “i will NOT be adding anymore products until LL amends SL to entirely negate copybot and similar technology – lip service to the TOS is not enough. second, [...]
Full StoryMASS UNREST IN MANITOBA!
Sim crashes and protests at the copyBot shop by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Mario particle lag bombs used to crash Manitoba sim Hordes of angry avatars converged on Manitoba sim today after metaverse citizens Prim Revolution and GeForce Go set up shop in-world to sell the copyBot – a tool that allows for easy [...]
Full StoryIs LL’s Copy Protection Pwned?
Content shall go forth and multiply by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Metaverse citizens who hoped to make a living selling objects may want to consider a different line of work – a new tool is making the rounds that makes it trivial to defeat Second Life’s copy protection of objects – as well as [...]
Full StoryIs Linden Lab Shepherding Electric Sheep to Greener Pastures?
Why reverse engineer when you have the API handed to you? by Isaiah Truth When the Herald broke the news that LL had given an inside tip to a special developers’ list enabling some to get an unfair advantage in purchasing the dwindling supply of low cost private islands, a chastened Philip Linden said he’d [...]
Full StoryHerald to Embed Raving Reporter in Philcon 2006
Crusading SL journalists might help metaverse and RL – or not. This coming weekend, the Philadelphia Science Fiction and Fantasy Society will feature Second Life in a dozen panel discussions and multiple interactive sessions. To help maintain the cosmic order and appropriate levels of discourse between avatars populating the metaverse and meatspace typists stuck in [...]
Full StoryThe Great Hunt
by Budka Groshomme, Raving Reporter – Science Fiction desk I recently ran across an intrepid band of residents who had a rather unique joint hobby of cooperatively following scavenger hunts. This sounded interesting. Has a new sport been developing in second life or are the scavenger hunts so many property owners have used to attract [...]
Full StoryAnshe to Honor Residents’ Vote: Dishonest PR Flacks to be Banned from Dreamland Continent
Dishonest PR added to previous list of bannable offenses: griefing, theft, violation of intellectual property, sexual harassment, online rape and distribution of child pornography Anshe Chung, owner and developer of virtual real estate on the Dreamland Continent (a region supported by 400-500 simulators that constitutes 10% of the land mass and 10% of the population [...]
Full StoryResidents of 400 Dreamland Sims vote to Ban PR and Marketing Flacks!!!!!
Residents vote unrepentant flacks off of 400+ islands! In one of the most significant developments in the history of virtual worlds and Massively Multiplayer Online Games, Residents of the Second Life gated community Dreamland have voted to ban unrepentant PR Flacks from their 400-500 Sim region. Conservative estimates suggest that Dreamland consititutes 10% of the [...]
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