Its ( as usual ) rumours sweeping speculation chinese whispers gossip and other forum / small blog related garbage.
Smoke and mirrors.
The author always writes a one sided version, never including what he knows but rather what he thinks.
Its the shitty downside to doing business on the www.
In RL this kind of banter wouldnt hit the TV news..but on the net just about any tom dick or Harry can just ramble on about some disgruntled crap and apparently everyone jumps on the bandwagon with comments like " yeah!!" and " I knew it!"
I roll my eyes at crap like this..was "warned" in
SL about it..havent even spoken to Lala..not interested.. the whole TOS thing is no different than LL's
“Notwithstanding the foregoing, you understand and agree that by submitting your Content to any area of the service, you automatically grant (and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant) to Linden Lab: (a) a royalty-free, worldwide, fully paid-up, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to (i) use, reproduce and distribute your Content within the Service as permitted by you through your interactions on the Service, and (ii) use and reproduce (and to authorize third parties to use and reproduce) any of your Content in any or all media for marketing and/or promotional purposes in connection with the Service, provided that in the event that your Content appears publicly in material under the control of Linden Lab,”
Isnt this Just the same thing here? A legal requirement that the wording in the TOS must include this because in order for LCO or
SL or OL to even host anothers content this is a requirement.
It was written in LL TOS much MUCH clearer than the above they have made it less obvious now but many ppl at the time started gossiping and forum bitching about how LL ” owned” our content.
We all knew it but none of us actually worried enough about it but at any one time Im damb sure legally they could of taken any content and decided to roll with that instead…they didnt of course!
I despise forums and thats why after almost 5 yrs in
SL I have made about 350 posts in
SL forums but this is a classic case were I feel I must support the "accused"
Apparently people DO beleieve what they read in tabloid newspapers in RL if forums are anything to go by.
The only difference is tabloid newspapers can be sued for a lot of money for claiming crap...were as I say any looser can issue a statement on their blog or 3rd party forum behind a false ID/avatar name and get away with it even if its libel.
I take everything I read with a pinch of salt