NeoBokrug Elytis

The DMCA and inworld theft has been affecting everyone I know as of late, and more recently it's been gaining more and more attention. I know content theft has been a problem from day one, but now it's easier than ever to steal someones shit. The Herald (not a source for real news), ran an article about an updated copybot, and how only a select few people had access to it. Unfortunately they're not moderating the comments on the article so you can go buy it at certain places fairly easy.

At the moment there's only a few solutions I can think of:

1) No more free accounts; or free accounts with ID verification, or tied to another account that has billing information. At some point, some place, a real life person is going to have to identify with LL. That way LL could possibly reverse the damages, purge the accounts, and refund people who bought the copied stuff as compensation for it getting deleted. I figure at some point they should put in the TOS that you will get utterly skull fucked if you steal other peoples content. It's not like you have any rights to your account as it is in the TOS. /rant

2) Open letter to Linden Labs II. I'm not the person to organize this, but I believe there's enough support now to make LL notice and do something about it. LL really needs a department of DMCA right now. Somehow I suspect they have just one linden working on it, and that's why it takes so long, and so little is done because it's not thorough enough. I think this is the best option right now.

3) Allow only "approved" clients to connect to the grid. This would wipe out most bots, which is sad because I know some people are working on legit bot projects. Even then it wouldn't stop intercept theft.


There are some problems. If stuff gets blackballed from the asset server, and people get banned there will be general unrest problems from people who purchased stuff that was stolen. Sucks to be them, but if LL refunds them from the offenders account, then there will be less of a problem.

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