Brick Back Torrid Midnight!

I wasn't going to post to this thread again but since it just got bumped I want to address this comment. The three skinners involved in this story (Lost, Starley, and myself) all license images from the same source that shoots nudes specifically for use by 3d texture artists. The photographs are fully paid for, licensed, and used in accordance with the license agreement. Please don't spread misinformation when you don't know what you're talking about. Thanks.

I mean - a house is a house, in that a person may want to take one of the houses you have built, whether or not you built it for someone specific. (Unless you're telling me that no one else could possibly want it!!!!!)

Yes, I know that program already exists, and I assumed you did, too, but I was being purposely somewhat vague about it, so as not to encourage its proliferation. I saw the damn thing in action. I, too, have "come to terms" with that fact. The moment I saw it, as a matter of fact.

But that hack - and this other one - is why we should discourage the use of these outside programs to obtain things that wouldn't ordinarily be rightfully obtainable within the actual structure of SL.

coco

Buryng your head in the sand and trying to pretend it doesn't exist is not a good survival strategy. People need to know a) it exists, and b) it's not exactly kosher to use.

Otherwise the bad guys will have access to it, while innocent content creators get reamed over and over again.

Knowledge is power and all that.

If I was doing what you are attacking me for doing I would have said such and such does this. I never once said that. Reading into comments like that makes you look like the idiot you are insinuating that I am.

What I said was that most of you own at least one item that had been ripped from somewhere else. This is because a lot of people do it. Not everyone maybe not even most, but a lot do and the majority of SL just don't care.

My point was that you cannot bitch and moan and complain about copyright while happily dancing away on an animation that was downloaded, hardly changed, and uploaded into SL.

I specifically did not say or even reference the content creators involved as doing the actions I had commented on. If that was unclear, then I am sorry as it was 4am when I posted that.

Maybe instead of looking for attacks in people's comments you could say 'I'm proud to inform everyone that these people do abide by license agreements' then pat yourself on the back for actually being a minority around here. This kind of negative knee jerk response is the reason why some of these people are going through this drama.

(The last comment references the horrible verbal attacks against the people in this public display of drama)

I just want to know why this is even in the forums? It only causes DRAMA and miss communiction by all parties. Its an opening to have people publically bashed.

This is a perfect example why LL is closing the forums.

Well, since i have generally no idea where the animations i use come from, i give the supposed authors benefit of doubt and presume they were obtained and produced by legitimate means. Same for the other content.

Presuming otherwise would be/is exactly what some people took offense at in this thread -- that if a content creator doesn't want the buyer access original base files, it's because they treat their buyers as would-be thieves. And well, to turn it around and claim it's okay to go against wish of the content maker 'because they are no doubt stealing content themselves' ... it isn't really good way to go about coming to any sort of compromise, is it? :<

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So much... pain. :*(