| I don't understand why people immediately expect LL to take responsibility in handling IP cases.
Don't get me wrong, I am by no means an apologist for Linden Lab. But they only provide the platform for content creation. They can be reasonably expected to provide tools which assist in defense of your creations against blatant copying, but it seems to me like violation of resident-imposed terms of use on their creations and Digital Millennium Copyright takedowns are a process to be handled though the government's judicial system if one expects to see results.
Sure, it's arguably even more painful to deal with the government than with LL, but I don't see how it can be made the responsibility of anyone other than the creator to proactively defend their intellectual property.
If a DMCA takedown is ignored, that is ammunition for further legal action, where information will be officially subpoenaed from Linden Lab regarding the account holder in violation of the takedown, whose ass is then dragged to court.
I guess it's more convenient to just say "Oh, LL is refusing to ban this person after I have taken the initial, basic steps in fighting them. This is all their fault." though.
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I'm off to hide in my corner, again! |