BEWARE: More textures/designs were stolen and resold. What’s next?

Of course not, this is just the Knee Jerk reaction of "Blame everything on the Unverifieds".

The permissions placed upon an item, whether it be a texture, or a Hairstyle, or a clothing item will determine whether or not it's a candidate for Theft.
When you check "Next owner can: Transfer/Resell" Whatever your intent, That is precisely what the new owner Can, and May do. Not too bad if they are only yardsaling the single one you sold them. Add "next owner can: Copy" and you are handing out the ability for others to manufacture and sell the results of Your work and creativity. Whether it was yout intent to do so or not, the Fact is that is what will happen because there are a few unscrupulous people out there. if you are going to sell an item, any item take time and THINK about what permissions you grant and why. That is why the check boxes are there. Think, Plan, and decide just how freely you want your items to be used.
Make things copy, Or transfer, but Not Both Unless it's your intent that these items spread far out of your control. For textures, there isn't much you can do, For everything else you Can weigh your options.

Angel.

Well as I understand it, people in the US, for example, were/are able to buy a $10-20 prepaid credit card with their cigarettes and six pack, use it to register on SL and get "verified".

Not quite the same as handing over your fingerprints, blood sample and taking the anal probe that they're suggesting for the new verification

To my knowledge, this person was not from US but from Europe where only few countries issue those "gift" credit cards (e.g. UK, Greece, Portugal) but most of them don’t.

As for the new verification procedure, even if it wasn't controversial and many residents decided to get "adult" verified, it would not make any difference on incidents like those, since most of the clothing shops are on PG or mature rated places.

Jesse, like I said on my first post, there is no way to prevent those kinds of incidents and that they are becoming more frequent due to the increase of the SL population and the current predominant climate of "I'll join SL to become a millionaire in two weeks".

I guess the only way is to learn living with that and to take prompt actions when those kind of incidents occur.

Hi! do you remember this post I made?

"You know, Linden Lab could put a line of code in that prevents anyone from checking the "for sale" box without having shiny new verified identity status. That might cool some ripoff artists' jets. It'd also suck horribly, but you never know. It's possible."

No verification- no selling.

The truth is, when this type of stuff takes place- we are all basically on our own. Ive read quite a few stories of people who did file a DMCA and it was a disaster. It should not be this way and im simply stated that its sick and sad that it is.

We all know the thing that makes SL incredibly appealing is the content is created by its users... If someone gets their things stolen and resold so much..at some point theyre going to close shop and walk away. And people flooding in here looking to make money..things can only get worse.

But hey, no one cares. Except the people dishing out the content.

From what I understand..

Skins are baked on and not really textures that you can steel after this has happened.

I suppose the nearest analagy is imagine IRL if somebody admired your tattoo .... they cant suddenly remove it from your arm as it has been "baked" into your skin.
same with skins.

As for "normal" textures, I really do believe that the majority of texture theft occurs outside of SL... i.e people using right click on websites and then uploading to SL for 10L$ and charging a LOT of money for.

Bottom line ... if you designed a texture from scratch .. then fair enough its YOUR IP, but I feel that most texture places are IP theft to start with and its only a case of who got to the website first *lol*

Come on guys .... I do my OWN textures for my lights or use freeones... its all relitive, is a texture REALLLY worth 500L$ , especially if theres no alpha etc.

Just my 2 cents and not intending to insult.

From what I understand..

Skins are baked on and not really textures that you can steel after this has happened.

I suppose the nearest analagy is imagine IRL if somebody admired your tattoo .... they cant suddenly remove it from your arm as it has been "baked" into your skin.
same with skins.

As for "normal" textures, I really do believe that the majority of texture theft occurs outside of SL... i.e people using right click on websites and then uploading to SL for 10L$ and charging a LOT of money for.

Bottom line ... if you designed a texture from scratch .. then fair enough its YOUR IP, but I feel that most texture places are IP theft to start with and its only a case of who got to the website first *lol*

Come on guys .... I do my OWN textures for my lights or use freeones... its all relitive, is a texture REALLLY worth 500L$ , especially if theres no alpha etc.

Just my 2 cents and not intending to insult.

I can't be certain but it seems that this time LL took a very swift action. The person's name no longer appears on the people search. I'm not sure what this means, perhaps he got banned or he deleted his profile. His shop is still standing on his land though.

If he indeed got banned so fast, I guess it was because the incident was of unprecedented scale (5-6 designers confirmed that they were affected) and LL had to take a prompt action before skins, body hair and clothes were selling for 1L$ at the yard sales.