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God Mode

Nicole David
Furniture Queen
Join date: 7 Sep 2005
Posts: 134
06-29-2006 01:59
Few questions.

Why aren't the makers of God Mode being punished for breaking the TOS we all agreed to and get punished for breaking? (In addition and slightly off topic, why are some players at different levels of social standing in Second Life treated differently when breaking the TOS? Yes this happens, can't deny it.)

Will users who use God Mode be punished in any way?

Why are Lindens strongly not recommending the use of the hack, but allowing it?
Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
06-29-2006 13:22
Hi Nicole! There were some related Q&A in SL Answers that came up you may also want to look at.

Also, for the bigger picture:

From: Phoenix Linden
I would like to take this discussion away from our Terms of Service and the question of legality of reverse engineering.

In an effort to provide an increasingly open-ended user experience, we generally welcome inspection of the information we exchange through the service. We also philosophically believe that creating more connectivity points engenders the culture we hope develops throughout the community -- a culture of creativity and innovation that provides a better place for everyone to play and work.

We will not pursue people who are reverse engineering the protocol who are looking to integrate their systems and processes with ours as long as those goals are not to the detriment of Linden Lab and the community at large.

Using information gathered to exploit the system, exploit residents, violate resident privacy or property, or generate disproportionate load will be pursued and will be curtailed in a manner we see fit.


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