At about 309 Lindens to the U.S. dollar, that's more than $32,000. Bragg, however, says he has managed to find ways to withdraw some of the money in his online account.
Seems like he must have been doing this for a while!
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nimrod Yaffle
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05-18-2006 05:53
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05-18-2006 06:20
http://wired.com/news/culture/0,70909-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 Seems like he must have been doing this for a while! the line before it said a million L$. The wired guys got the numbers wrong...added 1 to many 0's. Should be about $3,200 not $32,000. _____________________
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nimrod Yaffle
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05-18-2006 06:28
the line before it said a million L$. The wired guys got the numbers wrong...added 1 to many 0's. Should be about $3,200 not $32,000. Ah, I thought they meant that he got many sims, equal to what was supposed to be $32,000. Whoopsie! _____________________
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Darkness Anubis
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05-18-2006 06:34
Ah, I thought they meant that he got many sims, equal to what was supposed to be $32,000. Whoopsie! Once a math teacher always a math teacher.  _____________________
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Ingrid Ingersoll
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05-18-2006 06:55
I can't wait to see where this goes. My hunch is that he'll be eaten alive in court. But aside from that, it's interesting because it IS the first case like this ever. I think.
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05-18-2006 07:07
I am just wondering if LL is going to try to launch a countersuit for breach of contract (or something to that effect) for the effort to bypass the land sale system. This case is really going to be interesting to watch. Does a LL tenant actually own their stuff or is it simply a rental of services from LL. The article seems to say the latter, but my impression from LL has always been that you do own the "property". That could have a big impact in the case as it could make it possible to make LL return the property or its cash value.
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Margaret Mfume
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05-18-2006 07:16
http://wired.com/news/culture/0,70909-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 Bragg copied the URL for a legitimate auction, then swapped in the ID number for land not yet up for sale publicly, so there would be no minimum bid and few, if any, competing bidders. Few, if any, competing bidders? Were there any other participants in these auctions? _____________________
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05-18-2006 07:19
I can't wait to see where this goes. My hunch is that he'll be eaten alive in court. But aside from that, it's interesting because it IS the first case like this ever. I think. Yes, too bad it will get thrown out of court once LL explains how he subverted the system in his quest for money. That's the story, IMO, not that it has anything to do with virtual property. _____________________
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nimrod Yaffle
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05-18-2006 07:23
Few, if any, competing bidders? Were there any other participants in these auctions? Yeah, a couple other people were doing it also. _____________________
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Margaret Mfume
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05-18-2006 07:25
Yeah, a couple other people were doing it also. Were there repercussions for them as well? _____________________
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Rabbitsfoot Soothsayer
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05-18-2006 07:28
however, says he has managed to find ways to withdraw some of the money in his online account Presumably an account (an alt or a friends) that has modifiy rights to his objects into which they've put a simple llGiveMOney() script. Then that account cashes out. |
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Eggy Lippmann
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05-18-2006 07:55
Presumably an account (an alt or a friends) that has modifiy rights to his objects into which they've put a simple llGiveMOney() script. Then that account cashes out. You can't get runtime permissions from an avatar that is offline. This would have had to be setup beforehand. _____________________
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Cheyenne Marquez
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05-18-2006 08:31
the line before it said a million L$. The wired guys got the numbers wrong...added 1 to many 0's. Should be about $3,200 not $32,000. That and the fact that Bragg is suing for $8,000. I doubt he'd be suing for $8,000 dollars if he had lost $32,000. |
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Margaret Mfume
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05-18-2006 08:34
Bragg says they froze his account, which prevented him from drawing one million "LINDENS." Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't one million lindens at $L309/$1 equal out to about $3,000 or so dollars, not $32,000 as indicated by the article. Yuk, I don't like math so If my math is wrong don't be mean to me k  Covered in posts #2 & 3 of this thread. _____________________
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Lewis Nerd
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05-18-2006 08:34
You can't get runtime permissions from an avatar that is offline. This would have had to be setup beforehand. That kills any chance of him using "I didn't know" - because why else would you set up a backdoor way of getting hold of your cash in case you got caught? What a lowlife. I hope he loses his license as a lawyer as well as the case. Lewis _____________________
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05-18-2006 08:39
Covered in posts #2 & 3 of this thread. I know I noticed it after I had finished my post, sorry. Anyways, I edited my post to add another point which I hope hadn't been covered yet I guess you can say I improvised lol |
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05-18-2006 10:00
Sorry to go off topic, but the screen shots of SL in the article really show the place off. The pic with the shadows of palms and the pool reflecting the sun look fantastic.
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05-18-2006 13:35
I can't wait to see where this goes. My hunch is that he'll be eaten alive in court. But aside from that, it's interesting because it IS the first case like this ever. I think. There was a case about some guy that lost a 'magic weapon' in another "game", I think. That case went to trial in Japan, I believe, and the guy got his weapon back. It was on the BBC news site. _____________________
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