Thievery in foreign lands.

I'm not trolling here...

If it's a game then you are playing the part of a designer and shopkeeper and the people who stole your designs are playing the role of thieves. In this case anything goes.

/me screeches and runs after her dropped banana.

Also, as an aside: You do not need to register your work with the Copyright Office for your copyright to exist. That's automatic, as soon as you create an original work. However, registration serves as clear proof that you are, in fact, the creator. As such, it is invaluable evidence in any dispute.

Is that clear? Put another way: Your IP rights exist, independent of whether or not you formally copyrighted your work. The registration serves as proof of those rights.

I don't see why foreigners would be more apt to steal and resell.

If it continues with your product, I advice you don't allow modify/copy...

*shrugs*

You can't really do anything to product thieves in SL...digital content is considered "fantasy" and doesn't fall under the real world's intellectual property laws...at least...not legally. It IS your IP...but you can't sue over it.

I say you go to their shops, buy back what they stole, and re-resell it under your name..that'll show'em!!

You can't trust Johnny Foreigner. In the old days we could send in a gun boat, or give them a good bayonetting! They don't like it up 'em, Johnny Foreigner. Not one bit.

Ahh yes the good ole days! We could even blow up the gunboat ourselves, blame it on him and start a war, with lot's of catchy slogans, and take stuff away from him.

Ahh yes the good ole days! We could even blow up the gunboat ourselves, blame it on him and start a war, with lot's of catchy slogans, and take stuff away from him.

My favourite war so far was the Opium Wars between Britain and China in the 1840s. Never has a war's primary motives (financial gain - and why not?) been so honestly and blatantly made public.

What's yours?

There is no copyright laws in China....

My favourite war so far was the Opium Wars between Britain and China in the 1840s. Never has a war's primary motives (financial gain - and why not?) been so honestly and blatantly made public.

What's yours?

The Cold War, only coz it came out with so many cool pamphlets and movies, like "How to make a fallout shelter out of your bathroom" and "Duck and Cover".

The Cold War, only coz it came out with so many cool pamphlets and movies, like "How to make a fallout shelter out of your bathroom" and "Duck and Cover".

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Although there have been legal victories against cloners, most of the time they have been minor and fleeting. Last year, Sony won a lawsuit against a Guangzhou company that was copying the company's camcorder batteries. In another of the most watched cases, Prada, Chanel, Gucci, Burberry and Louis Vuitton sued Beijing's organized "Silk Market," one of the city's most well-visited locales for fake goods, and shut it down. Despite low monetary damages--$75,000 for Sony, and $12,500 in the Silk Market affair--the victories were hailed by some as part of a growing recognition in China that counterfeiting needs to be halted. The cases demonstrated the "strong resolve of the Chinese authorities in protecting intellectual property rights," says Tan Loke Khoon, head of the intellectual property practice in Hong Kong and China at the law firm Baker & McKenzie, which brought the two lawsuits.

But on my visit to Beijing, the Silk Market hadn't just reopened. It had expanded, turning itself from a seedy array of tiny stalls into a full-fledged modern shopping mall: a forbidden city of fakes. That's part of the dilemma in "fixing" the counterfeit problem, Friedmann says: "There's an impression that China is strongly controlled by the central government. The truth is that there's power everywhere. China is filled with 'little emperors' who can do whatever they want."

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The invasion of Grenada. I like small intimate affairs. Although the War of 1812 does have a certain charm.

I like the war of 1815 better. Burning Washington DC to the ground was the high point in that one. The 95th Rifles Regiment, now merely The Rifles, still has "Washington" as one of its battle honours.

Would they like to give a repeat performance? Wouldn't hurt.

No point.
Everybody knows that nobody actually lives in Washington DC.

Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Smith, of 2nd Battalion the 95th Rifles, found a formal dinner laid out ready to eat in the White House when he and his men stormed it. They gave up pursuing the fleeing politicians to sit down and eat.

I'd have done the same actually.

Particularly pleasing was that, ostensibly, the war of 1815 was fought for a just cause - that of trying to prevent American ships taking slaves from western Africa.

Too bad it didn't work. May have prevented the War of 1861

The Crimean War? I don't follow your reasoning

It did work, mostly. American ships (officially) stopped taking slaves from Africa in 1815 as part of the Treaty of Ghent - although the activities of a few suspiscious characters may have gone unnoticed. There were, however, still millions already living there, and their children were of course born slaves aswell. African slave trading was, ofcourse, only one of many quarrels (mostly trade related) that lead to the war.

See, even the damn French were civilized enough to stop taking slaves from Africa in 1805 just because we told them too - without us having to make them. What does that say about you

EDIT: Oh, and my mistake - the razing of Washington took place in 1814, not 1815. Also, we are talking about the same war. When British historians talk about the war of 1812, they mean the war against France. The war against the United States is referred to by our historians as the "American War".

have i mentioned dickinson is a god?