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Real Justice, Making Things Right

MichelleMarie Lapointe
Registered User
Join date: 27 Jun 2006
Posts: 251
11-16-2006 07:24
I have a suggestion for LL, make things right. Repay people who have had their intellectual property stolen.
With stores closing in our mall, with people obviously panicing because of this tool, LL should act more siftly, and with more force. Experimentation itself is not evil, but it is like the old saying in Jurrasic Park: "Just because you could do it, doesn't mean you should do it." LL has allowed the release of raptors in SL. They have forced creative people to close their doors for fear of having their property stolen. (There is no other way to describe it no matter how "forward thinking" one wishes to be.) My only hope is that this is the moment when common citizens, with or without payments rise up to say enough is enough. Thousands of us live and work here every day. I don't want to leave SL, I want to place the sociological, political, and economic power where it is and where it belongs. Anyone who wishes may contact me in-world. Justice making things right, is what should be done, and done now.
Kalel Venkman
Citizen
Join date: 10 Mar 2006
Posts: 587
Great in theory
11-16-2006 08:04
.. but that would trigger a cascade event in which every single item in SL would be potentially subject to review to determine the actual original creator - and since nearly all tools used for stealing content in this way work at the client end and not the server end of things, Linden Labs literally has no access to that information for the vast majority of content.

How would you propose they sift through the vast galaxies of information, nearly every one of which would require a court filing and subpoena from a judge, to identify these thefts? Remember that there are 1.2 million login accounts and climbing.