No license? Prim Deleted.

Learn something new everyday...

Today, decided to try another way for visitors to the mall, to join the fan club immediately without human intervention. They could simply click the "join group" boxes to receive an automatic group invite.

I bought a script on slexchange.com, rezzed it in the group invite box and then seen this message:



Contacted the creator but not expecting a response. Will wait a few days before I submit a review on this script.

Just curious what I am missing here. Why did it delete "my" prim when I put in the script that was not licensed? What if I placed it in a no copy item that I spent a few bucks on then? I looked in my trash and it is not in there. I have never heard of this. There is probably a reasonable explanation for this. Thanks.

you bought stolen goods?

excuse me, what do you mean by that ?

It's using llDie() instead of llRemoveInventory(llGetScriptName()) apparantly. The first deletes the object the script is in, the second simply removes the script from the prim's inventory but leaves the object intact.

Did the creator of the script match the person you bought it from? Maybe someone is just reselling a copy/transfer demo.

I checked and it is the creator. Doesn't mean much if the script is open source. Good point.

Meanwhile the creator did replace the script for me. I was not expecting it (and quick too) since the profile of this avatar is loaded with reseller groups.

Lesson learned, I will review a profile before I purchase on slexchange.com again.

Thanks Kitty.

Sound like someone is selling someone else's script, but the real creator has a suicide check built into it.

If you bought it on slexchange, you might want to contact that person. Either they're selling stolen goods or there's a failure to license the script when it's sold.

Could be an overzealous "protection" thingy too... definitely not a good experience on your end .

Glad you got it replaced though . Although maybe keep it away from the contents of expensive things in case it ever has a bad day again .

it may also be that whatever object you placed it INTO behaves that way.

For example, if I sold a sex bed, let's say.. and I didn't want the customers snooping around inside with linkmessage sniffers or copy scripts, I could place in my terms and conditions, a warning about this.. then my scripts, upon detecting the insertion of a script that.. wasn't mine.. could delete that script, or more agressively, delete the product entirely, as a "breach of user agreement".

I know several people who produce products that, rather aggressively, do not allow "tampering" or "hacking".. including the removal of the scripts and inserting them into other people's primwork.

It's hard to say, specifically what happened here. They may also use a centralized "liscence" server, either inworld, or more likely, on the web.. and if the object failed to verify it's liscence with that server, it may have done this for that reason.

In this latter case, llRemoveInventory might have been better,

*Especially* considering the state of cross-sim object communication in SL.

it can check your key with a database from somewere and commit scriptakiri if they dont match.
easy way to fuck off legit customers and add script load for nothing.