Anyone Attending the Protest!!!!

What you should be asking yourself is who is going to be left to speak up for you when LL decide to ruin your business under pressure from some jackbooted feds.

Right now, one of the few viable industries in SL is gambling. Gambling operators make up a very significant % of those actually making money. Gambling and adult services are the backbone of the SL economy, like it or not.

Intel might be a big noise in the real world, but they mean absolutely jack in SL and likely always will. Every big corporation that has come into SL has done so as a cheap publicity stunt, none have stayed and developed anything resembling a commercial stream of revenue. All they wanted to do was jump on the bandwagon of cheap publicity SL is getting.

Like I said earlier, "Lets you and him fight." You are wanting the Lindens to face fines and jail time. If you are standing up for principle, fine, I applaud that. If you are wanting someone else to stand up for your principles and face punishment while you cheer from the sidelines.........bullshit.

Most Feds I've known wear Oxfords. Maybe tassled loafers, or wingtips if they are edgy.

Yes. So many of the casino folks stood up for kinky people when that whole "broadly offensive" mess came out. Really.

At least one of the people yelling loudest about casinos being banned was revelling when sexual ageplay got banned. So, please do forgive me if I find the whole thing rather deeply amusing.

And the hilarious part is that you think that one is better than the other.

However, the servers are in America, the company is American, and all key employees are in America. Thus, American law holds sway.

SL really isn't an "international service", so much as it is an American service that a ton of international people use.

Nah, I agree with Nina on that point. Some people deserve rude treatment, and I'll cheer in those cases. But someone who's pretentious? Then it's time to break out the handshake buzzers and the seltzer bottles. Very different.

To my mind, if you think being rude is acceptable, you have little room to complain about most other social no-nos.

The basic architecture of the internet is located in America, and run by Americans. International internet users do not bow to American law.

they dont call him 'witchhunter' for nothing.

Nope - But Linden Labs has to.

Are you using a service based in America that has to bow to American law?

Please don't misunderstand. Some people richly deserve to be treated rudely because they are so offensive themselves. In fact, sometimes it is necessary, because some people regard politeness as a contemptible weakness to be taken advantage of and there is no other way to communicate with them. No-one deserves pretentiousness; that is an oxymoron.

Great, then talk to Linden Labs, offer them some money to move their entire operations overseas, and then you may have gambling again.


Until then..

LL - American Company
LL Servers - Located in US
LL- Has to follow American Law.

I am rather surprised you do not see the flaw in that logic, Green

No, it isn't. A select few servers used to direct traffic and such are in America. The servers that actually DO things are located in almost every country on earth.

"The Internet" is not a business. Linden Lab is a business, an American one at that, and all of its servers are located here, in America.

Those who prefer something clearly "non-American" instead can always go to Entropia [almost blows eardrums out trying to restrain uncontrollable guffaws].

or maybe not - American Credit card companies might still deny payment if SL was seen as a "Gambling Site"

so wed need to move all the credit card companies too.

No, I'd say I'm not misunderstanding.

If you think treating people rudely is acceptable, you don't get to complain about people making other social blunders.

Dude, let it out. You'll hurt yourself otherwise.

On a more serious note, I expect the day will come when LL opens the grid and allows people to hook up their own servers, wherever they may be located. Then this sort of question will be moot. And gambling will be back, if that is what you want.

I speak up for furries, adult RP-ers, the creators of content I find meaningful, useful, or just plain funny. I speak up for all sorts of imaginitive, creative, salacious, and/or just plain *weird* people. THEY make life worth living.

Dull clods out for a fast buck on the net, while they scar the land with monolithic lag-slinging blingtardiness? *shrugs* Sorry.

If you can think of a productive way to fight this ruling which would conceivably involve jail time, I'm all ears. I don't think there is one however. And I think you are vastly overstating the risks of allowing gambling to continue-web businesses where the core service is user-generated, eg youtube, regularly allow their users to play fast and loose with the law.

I do like to think I wouldn't have folded quite so meekly and pathetically as the Lindens did in this case.

Either way there is an additional problem: casinos have been a mainstay of SL for as long as any one can remember. They are a significant part of the economy. LL basically used those people to grow their business and now have dumped them when it was politically expedient to do so.
Good luck attracting investors with that approach, LL.

So, it is not just a question of principle, it is a question of loyalty and business confidence.

does anyone else find the name Entropia ironic?

Its liek they are trying to name their venture to fail.