I'm *not* a proponent of this scheme, but I'm also not sure its quite as ill thought out as people are suggesting here.
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Originally Posted by Sooz Pascale  1. Enforcement. Without LL participation, any enforcement scheme is a joke. LL is not even remotely interested in enforcing contracts, or going after fraud, except under a high degree of pressure. Why would they turn over the keys to someone else? |
First, I'll admit I'm using a layperson definition of "Enforcement". If you're using a specific legal defintion, then please grab Trout and admonish me severely.
The scheme has an enforcement scheme. Failure to abide by court rulings is punishable by banishment. Banishment is implementable by residents without any LL involvement whatsoever - see BanLink. Whether banishment will prove to be a sufficient deterrent is anyone's guess.
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Originally Posted by armozel But in all seriousness if you want to actually enforce a contract, just use the RL constructs already existent, don't try to magically add a new layer of bullshit unneeded and unproven. >_> |
It depends on the scale of the "crime" doesn't it? "Big" content creators with incomes of thousands of real dollars will of course properly ignore this scheme and pursue RL legal methods.
But if you pay me 10,000 $L to write a small script for you and I don't deliver, you're presumably not going to get William Shatner on the phone.
On the other hand, I might decide that the 10,000 wasn't worth being banned from the Metaverse Republic, and hence refund the money or finish the job.
Perhaps I'm alone in this view, but as a content-creator-minnow, I keep my
SL and RL separate. For example, I wouldn't issue a DMCA to protect my content, as I have no desire to risk some random
SL fucktard deciding to "get me" by mailbombing by RL workplace.