From: Wicked Picket
I know some closed in protest...I get that, and I support their choice to do so.
It's the places that I gone to and the entire build of the store is gone...that I don't get. That just looks to me as someone that was looking for a reason to leave.
To you, congrats for having the courage and common sense to stay open.
..oh, and please tell me you're not running one of the "!quit" scripts on your land.

No, I'm not and never did. Those were used by people trying to keep their items AVAILABLE to their customers.
Good people, excellent people, like Mash Mandala, and it angers me that anyone would fault their use of the only possible tool they had to protect their goods and still try to serve their customers.
And I'm certainly not looking for a reason to leave. I removed my items from my shop and from elsewhere in the world to PROTECT MY ITEMS. That it turned out everyone else was doing so to, and it also served as a protest, was just a bonus.
If you had worked as long and hard on those items, and you didn't want to see them turned into freebies overnight, I bet you would remove them, too.
If I had wanted to leave, I would have sold my land. I didn't sell my land, because I don't want to leave, and I hoped that some of this would get solved in the next days.
So far we have seen unsatisfactory replies from LL. But, due to the diligence and concern of residents who want the best for SL, we have now seen a chat log of what some of the LibSL members were up to.
We've also received a thoroughly satisfying statement from LibSL apologizing for the mess, announcing they have kicked out those responsible for disseminating the copybot info, and promising to start coding countermeasures to the copybot right away, which I will very definitely be watching and HOLDING THEM TO.
Now I'm waiting to hear similar adult words from LL itself on the matter.
I also could not put keep my objects out to become freebies until I learned - from the residents here, I might point out, as LL has been completely useless in this regard - measures I might take myself to protect the items.
And I couldn't put them out until I heard something from those responsible that something is being done about this. Now I'm waiting to hear the same from the Lindens.
Once I feel I have had proper and pragmatic reassurances from those responsible for this - and I have had, from LibSL - and once I feel I have a good handle on exactly what the copybot does and exactly how to put my houses and accessories and their boxes out on my land in the smartest way (and I'm making headway there, thanks to other residents), then I can consider putting them back out again.
Surely you don't think that going without sales for this period has been anything helpful to me at all. Or FUN. Nor was putting everything back something I looked forward to, and that right there will take me days.
In other words, it was certainly not a move I took without serious consideration in the first place, and THAT took me about 12 hours to decide, hours I will never get back.
I still haven't made a final decision whether to put them back, but things are looking up, and we may have reached a turning point. I think hearing something positive from LL would help, too.
coco