The Alphaville Herald

Auto-Bans For Copybot Clients – SL Viewer Wars Escalate

Skills Hak's client detection system & ban relay fights copybot-capable clients – Transylvania vampires warn against running griefer clients
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs Desk
Taking Second Life anti-copying software as a service in a new direction, Skills Hak has released a client detection and ban relay system which Hak says "detects all known viewers with copybot/griefing [...]

Saints of Hell MC Implicated In Second Life Content Theft – Part 1

Motorcycle and parts theft copybot outrage!
by Coke Supply, Investigative Reporter
[In this multipart tale of dark dealings in the Second Life motorcycle and parts trade Coke Supply delves into the shady activities of Black Lisle, AKA BiackLisle, of the Saints of Hell Motorbike Club to reveal anastonishing level of complicity amongst the group's leadership withregards to [...]

Plexus Linden Gives Second Life Superman Copyright Dance Lessons?

Cozy, classified relationship and implausible deniability
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk

Did Plexus Linden encourage Second Life's copyright-challenged Justice League Unlimited to tap dance around potential IP infringement issues with a wink and a nod, while promising the JLU in-game super powers? JLU leader Kalel Venkman's vigorous pursuit of whack-a-mole takedown actions against sites hosting the [...]

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 of the [...]

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 faction was [...]

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 [...]

BanLink Security Broken – Shocking SQL Reveals All!!!

Sloppy software willingly accepts rogue queries -  BanLink passwords compromised?
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
BanLink is a resident-created Second Life "service" allowing land owners to easily share lists of players to ban from their virtual land. Given the potential for abuse of such a system, you might expect a certain level of care would have [...]

Linden Lab = Chicken Murderer

Farmers demand chicken-replacement program
by Pappy Enoch, Pullet-Surprise Winner
Don't count no chickens before they hatches, like the feller done said that time. But maybe somebody needs to count 'em when they falls of the edge of the fake world.
Herald readers been a-carrying on worse than a coop full o' hens when the [...]

Chipmunk Warns Against Second Furry-Troll YouTube War

Time is better spent on Second Life, fur affinity account
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
Tamias the Chipmunk – a war weary veteran of troll/furry conflict on YouTube – issued a new video warning against a second furry war in the user-generated content battleground that is YouTube.
Although Tamias feels that repeating pro- and anti-furry arguments serves [...]

SLchan.com — W-Hat.com’s Bratty Little Brother?

New media watchby Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk

Our attention was recently drawn to www.SLchan.com – an image-driven site catering to the tastes of Second Life’s /b/tard community – mixing the ironic hypercute, the profane, and a smattering of iconic griefers as the community collectively defines an internet subculture with random pictures and short comments. [...]