One way to handle thieves
Posted by myg
I’m not saying it’s the only way. Hell, I’m not saying it’s the right way, or even an effective way. But ponder this. While copyright infringement is a violation of real law, shooting someone in Second Life is not.
Makes you wonder what solutions one might dream up to protect one’s intellectual property inside the wildness of the virtual frontier.
All that said, I was impressed that the demonstrations in front of this shithole and the others were so effective at running content thieves out of town. Kudos to community.
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The thing is, you know, I and others are are doing their best to put forward the case for internal governance when it comes to copyright breach blah de blah de blah.
It makes little or no difference unless people take direct action - LL has indicated that it doesn’t care thus far. Attention will only be paid to the “reasonable” voices when there is widespread protest as well, emails, blog posts, flag-waving, griefing etc.
you said it Ordinal.
In totally unrelated news:
Woohoo, I made it through 30+ posts on this blog during the last hours! Besides all the reading, downloading all that great music takes its time for sure
And for the moment, I own the “What you said” section
haha Timothy! Now I’m trying to catch up on your comments