Illegal Land Scanners At 600 Meters

Feel free to check the Dacia sim for these where I live.

I can sort of see where they are coming from using 'exploit'

If I set my land to no build and no outside scripts - I am saying that I don't wish people to build or run scripts on my land, however if you fly above my land high enough - you get out of 'range' of this and can build and use scripts - although saying this is using my 'server resources' for scripts I can agree with, despite it being not the most concrete of arguments - you can't deny that they are using your prims, against your wishes (setting of no build).

So it gets around the land settings, knowing full well the wishes of the land holder - it uses a limitation (height of settings) to go against their wishes.

I can see why they use 'exploit'.

Siggy.

THere is a margin of prims set aside in each sim quota for transient things such as vehicles and attachments.

If you rez a cube on my land - you are using my lands prim quota - that I pay for. I can certainly see why people get their noses bent outta shape about it.

Buying land from another resident and placing a land scanner on it, is an old practice. It's been discussed here a thousand times before.

However, when the Lindens open new sims, land must be bought from other residents when it comes for sale. The purchaser subdivides it and sells the remaining. Sometimes at a loss, or sometimes a 16m plot is purchased at higher than normal market value.

It's "spyware" when someone uses a scripted object over another person's land for sole personal gain, whilst the owner is unwittingly party to the action.

Last time I checked the TOS, spyware is a violation.

Surreptitiously intercepting data.

(v) take any actions or upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit Content that contains any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, spyware, time bombs, cancelbots or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information;

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How dare you mention Mr. M----- by name!

If it "isn't technically illegal" then asking people why they are calling it "illegal" seems like a pretty straightforward and reasonable question to me.

It's "illegal" in SL if Linden Lab punishes you for it. Since they can't remain consistent from hour to hour, the definition is rather useless and is largely used by players to convince other players. However if I get punished for X and you don't is it "illegal"? Who knows, or cares?

If there's a spyware script running on your land, maybe emailing conversations home or something, you'd have cause to complain. But you don't seem to be complaining just about spyware, you're complaining about ANY scripts in objects over your land even if anything they happen to be transmitting is public data.
There's a certain amount of CPU time and memory set aside on every sim to allow for other people's stuff. It's not associated with any given parcel. If there's nobody running scripts but you, you get to use that, but the Lindens have stated that this is a windfall, you don't own that CPU time or memory.
Threads can't "put the kibosh" on anything.
That's your opinion, yes. I don't happen to agree that any landowner has absolute rights to control everything over their land... in RL or in SL. Now if you have another reason than absolute control, OK, but it doesn't sound like they're doing anything illegal to me.

The fact that an object is using a limitation in a landowner's control doesn't mean that it is illegally doing so. Unless the Lindens say otherwise, and unless these are causing significant harm to the landowner (I mean, I'm right up against my prim limit myself but I wouldn't begrudge One More Prim), then there's no reason to describe them as an "exploit".

If you get bunches of them hovering over your plot, then that's a different matter, but there's no indication that that's going to happen.

Um, no, it's spyware if it acquires personal or private information and discloses it to a second party. Getting an early alert about public information isn't anywhere NEAR "spyware" territory.

there were 3 friends.

two of these friends were bidding against each other for the same piece of property at auction.

the 3rd friend was not involved in the auction but they were all chatting on her land.

one of the friends left the property.

time passed.

for what ever reason a small object was found on her property soon after. it was 0.010x 0.010x 0.010 in size and contained a repeater script.

a linden was called in Jeff Linden. He confirmed the script was a repeater script and the object was removed.

there was just one problem. the object belonged to the friend that left the property.

the two friends that remained on the property were in fact discussing highest bid prices for the land that was up for auction.

a good decent friendship was ended that day.

months later the gal realized that the script did not store information anywhere it just repeated what was said randomly.

Friendships can be lost when we jump to conclusions, please have all your facts first.

This is based on a true story, and I still miss my friend.

Be kind to each other.

OOPS! *post removed cause i somehow stuck it in the wrong thread*