Illegal Movie/DVD Sales in SL

And that torch of responsibility now goes to ......?

No one. There is no need for anyone to be policing it at all.

The OP brings up a good point that movies being sold in SL 'could' be illegal. I liked his video as a pretend journalist with a mouth moving animation and everything, lol.

Someone earlier in this thread made a good observation that we don't know who has paid royalties to sell these items in SL and who hasn't. If we don't know that and we make a video about the sellers and say they are bootleggers and thieves, isn't that possibly slanderous? I think you said that you bought one of these videos in Second Life while under the impression that they are bootleg copies... why was that again?

It's the same old same old argument of Intellectual Property, like using a RL brand on your own SL stuff, re: that horrible discussion last week. IP is IP is IP and it's theft to use it without permission. I'm not here to police anyone. None of us are. I suppose that if any of us REEEALLY had a problem with it, we'd contact the movie company, designer brand, etc and snitch on the SL resident who is illegally using the name/content. Who in the Sam Hill is gonna do that?

Either it is policed internally or it is inevitable that the Real World will come in and police it.

What is the fascination with the Wild Wild West? Lawlessness, crime, exploitation. theft, corruption, manipulation of the system, people unable to follow basic principles of ethical behaviors. Utter Chaos.

Exactly - it's the job of the police, the FBI and the courts. That's what they're paid for.

I think you answered your own question...

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I think it was a rhetorical question, followed by an answer. I think.

Yes and the first thing they will do is put the responsibility back where it belongs---back with the owners. This is not the internet just yet, this is a for profit company, with subscribers, breaking laws.

And the subscribers are the culprits who would be prosecuted - not LL - so it's still the job of the police to stop people doing it. In just the same way that it's not the job of Dodge to stop people driving their cars drunk. LL should only involve themselves with breaches of their own ToS.

Dodge doesn't own the cars after they are paid for. They don't own the roads, They don't profit from street crime. The real world isn't owned by any one entity, this virtual world is.

Ooops I slipped and fell in SL,

According to LL we own our land. That's what their advertising says.

You could. But you'd be wasting your breath.
The best you can do is don't patronize them. Don't buy bootlegged video.
If enough people did that, there wouldn't be any.

Last I looked I don't have it on my hard drive. What their advertising says and what their tos says is two different things. We own nothing and according to their tos, they are not legally responsible to maintain content that is considered yours. Of course a tos doesn't absolve them from final responsibility.

The MPAA has a 1-800 number you can call to report movie piracy and you get a reward on successful prosecution. This isn't a new problem in SL.

This forum isn't for general discussion; there are many Resident Sites where this discussion is appropriate — Resident Answers is for Resident-to-Resident help. I'll close this thread...

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