Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 15:41:01 -0400
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Subject: SecondLife.com Land Auctions - Fraud and Liable Consideration against Linden Labs et al
Marc
Thank you for taking the time to recieve my communications.
Since you are an attorny as well as a victim in these matters I do not
believe that you could represent any of the other victims in these
cases.
That being said; Your advice is welcomed, but there should not be any
presumption of privlage between us and communications such as this may
lead to a speedy, and mutually acceptable resolution to all of our
problems.
As I see it the problems are Multiple, the solutions are simple.
Linden Labs, in responce to multiple inquires from residents about
auctions of partial and entire regions of the virual world to other
residents, placed several residents' accounts on HOLD. During that Hold,
Linden Labs assimilated virtual lands, previously sold at auction to those
accounts, bought and paid for with real world curancy, BACK into Linden
posession and into the auction system, for sale, without notice to
those residents or any communication whatsoever.
At the same time Linden Labs posed that there was an INVESTIGATION,
which was being conducted, in secret, without any questions being posed to
those Residents involved. At the same time as this suposed
Investigation, Linden Labs notified other residents in writing in email, that
materials were being returned to them from those lands, because the lands in
question were alleged by Linden Labs to be obtained through an
'Exploit'.
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IN MY CASE:
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I went looking for auction land.
I went to a SIM that was in 'Light Blue' on the map.
I looked at ABOUT LAND.
I got the Auction number.
I went to the Web Page.
I READ the web page.
I followed the instructions posted on that page.
QUOTE: "Yeot 001 (128,12

If
you bid now This auction will end on April 28, 2006 at 18:28 PST.
Place a Bid:
Current Bid: US$ 0.00
Your maximum bid: US$ (PLACE BID)
(Enter 1.00 or more)"
I made a calculation on land tier and figured out what I could afford.
I found more pieces of Land for Auction.
I followed more instructions.
I bid on Multiple Pieces without tiering up knowing that the auctions
were
publicly viewable and others could out bid me at any time.
... 48 hours Passed ...
The Auctions I bid on recieved other bids.
Other people out bid me, MicroDick Dinkens (a Linden Account) outbid
me.
Prices on some of those auctions went well out of my price range.
I won 3 sims, more than I expected.
I paid on the web page.
I went to the land again and bought it.
I sold it.
I went to the second auction and paid.
I sold It.
I went to the third auction and paid.
I moved my Home Location and donated the land into my family group.
I answered all questions put to me about it.
I watched as Linden labs put a hold on my account and 'ASSIMILATED' my
land and
put it BACK out for sale at auction.
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... All the arguments in the world will not cover up the facts that...
1) The low price INDUCED me to pay moneys (Bid and Tier) I would not
have spent
2) Claiming that an item priced, at auction, starting at US$0 is now
worth US$1000, is a wholy false claim. It is worth what people were
willing to pay for it, as established by the bids I lost, including the
auctions(plural) outbid by Linden Labs themselves.
3) Claiming that following Lindens own PUBLISHED in world Instructions
for finding and bidding on land, is an exploit, is so far beyond
reasonable as to be laughable. Linden Labs was aware of prices of thier land
auctions and publicly admited to same, two weeks before our land
auctions took place. They were likewise aware of the auction prices AT THE
TIME OF THE AUCTIONS in that several of the auctions were outbid by
'MicroDick Dinkens', A Linden Labs Account, in an effort to raise the prices
of the auctions and inflate thier own profits.
4) Claiming that those Lands were 'not ready for auction' is also
unsustainable. Regardless of all other writings on the site about some land
not being ready for auction, 'Bid Now' on the auction page means the
land was READY for auction at the PUBLISHED minimum.
5) Notifying me of the winning auction, by e-mail, and directing me to
pay my bid, via the SecondLife website, in US DOLLARS, is a REAL WORLD
contract which is BINDING TO BOTH PARTIES. Accepting my money and,
separately, transfering title of the land to me, constituted acceptance of
that contract.
6) Taking back the land FORCEFULLY, and then placeing it up for
RE-Auction, without reebursement to the LEGITIMATE BIDDERS, under these
conditions I believe constitutes a criminal act of Fraud by Linden Labs.
Thereafter Making the untrue and PUBLIC claim that our lands were in fact
obtained via an 'Exploit' in email to multiple third parties,
constitutes, in my oppinion, a LIABLE for which compesitory damages can not be
measured.
7) Having your account, that you come to depend on, placed on hold, is
harmful. At the same time as My account was closed, several other
accounts in the same building were also closed. Friends and family, presumed
guilty of a false claim of 'exploitation' simply because those users
shared a thread of comonality, The Building where they live and pay rent.

hold.
9) The actions you have brought, in the State of PA, being based on
multiple frauds against multiple victims, this email and/or perhaps
motions in those cases, to include related parties and compell estopel,
should be coppied to PayPal.com Fraud Department and the online credit card
corospndent bank(s) for Linden Labs, The Domain Registrar (for
SecondLife.com, LindenLabs.com, SLURL.com), a copy to Pnap.com and
SprintLink.net, the companies that provide Linden Labs thier connection to the
internet, and lastly, a copy to and possible third party inclusion as
Defendant for Damages for Liable, Globespan Capital Partners who, last
month, provided LindenLabs with $11 Million Dollars in Funding, so that
Linden Labs could perpetrate such acts.
10) These types of activities, I believe fall under Florida's 'Crimes
Against Computer Users' statutes which include provisions for interstate
and international crimes against Florida Residents as being the
jurisdiction of the Florida Courts and the Federal District Court in Florida
as the statute states any such crime over the internet is presumed to
have taken place in Florida, as well as provisions for the seasure of all
Computers, Equipment and Moneys used in the crimes, by the State of
Florida, or the then conviening Federal District Court in Florida.
11) To My understanding, included computer systems would be the
internet service providers' distribution systems, the Corosponding Bank's
Computers, PayPal's entire Server collection, and every computer,
calculator, slide rule and abicus in the posesion of linden labs, thier
affiliates, officers, assigns and employees.
12) It is also my understanding that, even my simple understanding of
the laws in this case, means that there is, however remote, a posibility
that Secondlife and Linden Labs as an entity could be forced off the
internet and into oblivion even before the case is scheduled for trial,
at the conviening of a Motions hearing which only requires a 48 hour
notice to appear.
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For the record, I personally do not want to see SL closed. I enjoyed
the game alot. I think the ideals of the game are fantastic. However, I
do not want to be Liabled and Robbed by anyone, especially when that
someone has a place of power in the community, virtual or real.
All I want, personally, is for Linden Labs to obey thier own rules and
honor the auctions of Virtual Land; Take my account off hold; and
publish a public retraction in the same method that they Liabled me.
I definately want my online name and honor restored by Philip Rosedale,
a.k.a. Philip Linden, CEO and Founder, in a public post on Second Life
Forums. I want to read that 'Mezentius, Medina, Thunder, Marc, Drea,
Sleesak and any and all other names of any and all other residents
associated with this debacle, did nothing wrong, and Linden Labs is Honoring
the Auctions as they were at the time of the suspentions of accounts
during this issue."
It would be nice, and a heck of a lot less expencive for Linden Labs
and I both, if the damages were limited to IN WORLD repayment, such as a
lifetime paid account and never paying tier again, for the other
damages such as lost reputations, lost in world business and the public
humiliation of being prohibited from defending against unfounded accusations
in a very small global community.
Rules are published living documents, including the rules set forth by
Linden Labs for thier virtual world. No one should be held above the
law. Of the 13 Full Sims I found that were set to a price of US$0, 9 of
them had been previously bid, and won at auction by SecondLife's most
celebrated Land Owner. They were never claimed by her and canceled after
the time expired, dispite Linden Labs Rule that 'multiple auction bid
cancelations may result in a loss of bidding status.'
Likewise, Linden Labs published the law for thier world, they should
not be considered above the laws they themselves published for thier
virtual world.
When Linden Labs went outside of thier virtual world by holding me
outside, and by publishing Liables inside and outside of SL. They have to
be made to understand that REAL WORLD laws take precidence.
Now, I am sending this to those residents whom have contacted me or
whom I know from in game, as well as yourself and the
[email]Abuse-Manager@secondlife.com[/email], I am further copying this to those
persons and entities named herein as possible recipiants of litigations.
I am also holding a copy of this e-mail, until close of business on
Monday, May 8, 2006. At the end of that time, I will feel justified in
taking charge of all of the legal measures available to me at law and in
equity including the total closure of SecondLife.com, Linden Labs, and
the enteties that assisted or abeted them in these acts through services
and/or moneys, through the courts, and file suit for damages in the
millions of dollars $US, and motions for seasure of assets and equipment,
from each and every possible defendant listed herein.
A simple solution is within grasp before that time expires. I do pray
that I am NOT tested on this issue.
Paul x. xxxxx
A.K.A
Mezentius Speculaas
Florida Resident
Citrus Springs, FL
Contact Number (xxx) xxx-xxxx
P.S. Before the claim is even made that I am 'EXTORTING' or 'LIABLEING'
Linden Labs by sending this email publicly. Existing Precident clearly
establishes that requesting remedy prior to persuit of Legal Action
through the courts can NEVER be considered unlawful.
An unlawful act would be asking for compensation prior to contacting
members of the press or general public. No such thereat has now nor will
ever be made.
Such Contact to the press, specifically, any and all press outlets that
have ever published an article on or about SecondLife.com is being made
SIMULTAINIUSLY to this request. No action can undo the SEND function on
this email and everything in this e-mail is true and correct to the
best of my knowlage, due dilligence having been performed to the best of
my abillity.