Someone Charging $10 To Sell Software To Rip Clothing/skins/texures From Sl

This person is charging for something that is and should be considered illegal and a threat to ANYONE creating in SL
This is the decription :
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WARNING! COPYING is ILLEGAL, EVEN IN SECOND LIFE (TM)!

Updated version!

! copyALLtextures - copy all textures

First of all; this is not a like a illegal copybot! Not at all!!!!

What is this; this is INFOBOOK to software which copy all seeing textures in Second Life world.

By loading this software in your Pc and reading the manual you could scan all seeing textures inworld Second Life. Then the software saves them in your Pc and you could load the images back to inworld Second Life.

With this INFOBOOK you can copy and load the most beautifully textures which you could see in world; Avatars, walls, doors, windows, ground, games ,etc......

Its easy and fun to use. Its copyALLtexture................

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This are the links:

http://www.slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=517298

http://shop.onrez.com/item/484080

And it IS illegal to "copy" textures save them to your PC and upload them no different then copying music , books, videos for free.

This "person" is actually charging ppl some for software that is free anyway. The software has been around since SL exsisted and before.

So not only is it imoral AND illegal but its unethical to charge ppl for something anyone can obtain freely which shows the level of this persons ethics.

I and others are submitting tickets to the website insisting his item is removed immediatly and the more people that support us in doing this the better the outcome.

by selling this software to people puts ALL clothing, furniture, skin and texture artists at risk as ppl will be able to rip save and upload and whilst that doesnt stop the creator from issuing DMCAs ( because uploading in their own name doesnt make the texures theirs legally ) it will effect the originality and sales of the real creators who spend hours of their lives creating these textures.clothing and skins for SL many of which do so as their only source of income.

Please submit a ticket to SLX to have this offending item removed and have this looser banned from SLX for cashing in on something thats free anyway and immoral at every level.

Thanks

LillyBeth

I sent tickets to both sites and am hoping for a positive reply.

To echo lillybeths post, I ask that people do not buy this software, it takes hours of work to create something that is worth uploading to secondlife and to have someone come along and rip it off is just disgraceful. So come on people help out and send tickets into these sites to get the offending item removed.

Take care
Nat

I've sent tickets too. It's bad enough that LL doesn't do anything about this software and even worse that it's for sale.

was the crossposting really necessary?... come to that was the passing out of the address necessary? Seems to me you're your own worst enemy in this case.

Yes.

hmmmmm?

Now what do you think the chances are of people actually taking the time to sive through all of SLX sales under various key words to be able to report the guy and put a ticket in?

Of course its necessary! And dont you think I am aware of the fact some people will see this and go buy it? Jesus I run one of SLs oldest businesses please give me a little credit here! Its a sacrifice I had to make to make ppl aware.

Thanks for "your" support.

They appear to be gone.. Excellent, thanks.

I'd think the name is sufficient, I'd also think telling a group of friends you trust the exact details and getting them to report would suffice


no.... not really


well I'm sure all of the OTHER business' in SL that are vunerable to this 'thank you' for 'your sacrifice'...[/end sarcasm]

it could have been handled much more quietly and effeciently, without all the histrionics, and without exposing more busnisses' to increased risk

I dont advocate the use of that program either, and it looks like it's been successfully pulled from both sites.

To boot, I've also noticed some artist's "hard work" that appeared to come from commercially sold texture packs on the net, that are probably easily downloaded for free using programs like limewire and the like. Just a thought...