Age Verification

Where do I go? How do I do it?

To access adult-rated regions (such as the adult regions of Zindra) you just need to have payment info entered into the system and tick adult in Preferences <--Important . PIOF could be a credit card, or even a PayPal account in place for XStreetSL.

You can also Age Verify through your account page on the website.

There are a few parcels set "Age Verified Only" that you wouldn't be able to access using PIOF, but very few.

Hi, Emanuelle, welcome to the forums!

Age verification *is* confusing. I'm going to assume that you want to be able to search for Adult items inworld and visit Adult sims. You need to do one (*only* one) of the following:

1. Validate your SL account by putting a credit card on file with LL and buying Lindens with it, or

2. Validate your SL account by using a "verified Paypal account" to buy either Lindens on the Lindex or anything on XStreet. A "verified Paypal account" is a Paypal account that is linked to a bank account, so it debits that account immediately whenever you buy anything via Paypal. Or:

3. Use LL's Age Verification. To do this, log into the website (www.secondlife.com). On the home page, choose "account" on the left. Then choose "Age Verification", again on the left, and fill out and submit the form.

For more info, the Knowledge Base (on the Support page) has a FAQ on Age Verification.
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Matter of fact I've noted quite a few eejits adopting that policy over these past few days. Some even require group membership. I wonder how long it will take them to wise up and quit over-reacting to this 'Adult' bullsh!t.

I don't think it's just over-reacting. From the questions people have been asking -- including some well-known makers of adult content who're based on private sims -- in the Concierge Group, a lot of people still don't really understand what they're supposed to do with their sims. Only the other day, I had to explain to someone behind a very well-known brand that playing with the access settings and leaving the sim flagged as Mature wasn't going to achieve anything other than upsetting customers and still being liable to ARs come September 15th.

But surely it's enough to flag the sim as 'Adult' and let 'Payment Info on File' do the rest? If I understand the age verification requirement correctly, it isn't necessary for residents to provide any other personal details if they have PIOF. I suppose age verification is handy for those who don't wish to put their credit card details on the LL server but I still think it's something of an over reaction to require age verification from PIOF avs.

Exactly so. My point was that, even now, a lot of sim owners just don't realise that's all they need to do.

Ah right. My apologies, Innula, but that is also why I identified them with the term 'eejit' in the first place. As sim owners they ought to know better. Really.

Yeah, point taken. What struck me, though, was that the person asking this is someone who's very bright and normally clued up, and I thought, "wow.. if so-and-so is confused about this, I bet a lot of other people are, too".

I would require both the payment info AND the Aristotle verification to enter my place of business.

Why?

BEcause when Little Johnny's mama sues me because her precious darlin got his eyes burned watching avatars on poseballs I want to say to the court I used every tool avaiable to me to ensure my customers were adults. GO take a look at what little johnny was doing on the ADULT grid first. THen talk to LL about better verification. I covered my bases.

Now I know CCs are not supposed to be used as Age ID and Aristotle is crap.

Hence I am no longer in the Adult content business.

People keep on expressing this fear, and doubtless it's well founded in the USA, but I have to say that, while it's not my area, I can't imagine such a civil action getting very far in the UK.

What tort would you have committed? It sounds roughly equivalent to Little Johnny's mama trying to sue the manufacturers of some drink because a bar somewhere was fooled by his fake id and sold him something alcoholic.

It's not well founded in the USA. Adult content websites have been in existence in the U.S. for decades, and their only means of age verification has been a means of payment and a check box that indicated the person is confirming their age and that acknowledging that they are aware they are about to access adult content as described in whatever disclaimer the website provides. The docket is conspicuously void of anyone suing such sites. That's not to say they don't exist, but they don't exist in any appreciable number or notoriety to indicate that site operators should be overly concerned. Also any person daft enough to try and sue someone for their minor accessing adult content in SL would be far more likely to go after LL's deeper pockets than some SL resident operating at a loss or with questionable assets to even cover the person's legal costs.

This is all thats required by law, because it then transfers legal responsibility to the user. It works fine for every other adult site on the net. Basically if Little Jimmy aged 14 steals his mum's credit card and logs in to an 18+ website he's done so knowing he's underage, so the website provider is absolved of responsibility. The responsibility therefore falls on Little Jimmy himself, and his mother who failed to supervise his use of the internet properly.

Linden Lab is over-reacting because they fear losing corporate business.