Can a general DMCA be filed against ALL users and distributors of CopyBot?

Can a general DMCA Take-down order be filed against ALL users and distributors of CopyBot?

The information on the LL website only indicates how to proceed if you have caught the thief red-handed with an illegal copy of your own copyrighted work. Yet if one reads the DMCA itself, mere distribution of a tool specificly intended to violate copyright or copy protection is, in itself, a DMCA violation.

So... How can we file a DMCA Take Down notice to have ALL content created using CopyBot removed from in-world, and to have an in-world a 'cease and desist' order placed against the thieves and distributors? Can this be done at all?

Or must we resort to an expensive and drawn-out class-action lawsuit, possibly including Linden Lab as a Corporate entity, as well as specific Lindens and members of Libsecondlife as individuals, to get this menace and its fallout removed?

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Reply to Blue:

Blue? Please explain how an application that removes and replaces the content creator's attribution and which eliminates the content creator's choice of copy restrictions can in ANY way be validated as a "Legitimate Use". CopyBot can NOT be used without violating the content creator's IP rights, unless it is restricted to only being used on prims that you already HAVE full permissions on, because you ARE the creator of those prims. And if you ARE the copyright owner, you already HAVE the ability to copy the item, and do not NEED CopyBot. THERE IS NO LEGITIMATE USE FOR COPYBOT.

I guess I need to pursue a class action lawsuit against Linden Labs, as an accessory to the criminal act of violating copyright by distributing CopyBot.

Users of CopyBot do not NEED to copy my items in particular to harm me financially. All they need to do is to flood the market with items similar to what I sell, at a cost that is far below the fair market value of the items.

You're fiddling while Rome burns around your ears. Can't you see that???

Hi Ceera,

Because there are legitimate and legal applications for any copying device, in SL or RL, the issue boils down to individuals infringing upon someone's copyright. As such a blanket DMCA report would likely not be appropriate. Please file Abuse Reports on any individuals using copybot to make duplicates of your creations without your permission.