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Old 06-17-2008, 11:56 PM   #76 (permalink)
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Isn't that the point of class actions - to split the costs? Ner?

Am I misunderstanding?
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Old 06-18-2008, 12:07 AM   #77 (permalink)
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The next step for you Stoker, if you're willing to take it, is to have your attorney write a letter to Linden Lab or perhaps more appropriately call them up on the phone, about their enforcement or lack-there-of of the DMCA.

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Isn't that the point of class actions - to split the costs? Ner?

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Class actions are extremely expensive and usually backed by only a handful of clients, you need one primary client to represent. All other potentially affected people are represented as well if they opt in but they do not pay any of the costs. Often the lawyers will assume some of the costs as the potential payoff is huge and the lawyer can stand to take a double digit percentage of the settlement and the clients get a smaller portion and the settlement and the public at large just a micron of that. Class action lawsuits tend to be punitive or pirate, either their out to make a buck or their trying to punish the company for their actions (Or both). It seldom ever helps the clientelle other than getting the company to change it's policy, but it does help the attorneys (On both sides) and it hurts the company and often the primary clientes as well as they assume the burded if the class action fails (Though again attorneys often take on part of the financial risk).
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Old 06-18-2008, 01:44 AM   #78 (permalink)
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What I want to know is, if this sucks so much for all of us, why does everyone else avoid my question of a class action lawsuit? WTF is the point of that? We'd rather bitch than doing anything?
I'll take a stab at that one, in addition to what ZATZAi said. I don't think this is realistic at this point because:

(1) No current content creator has the horses, and someone has to lead a class action lawsuit.

(2) We all agreed to the ToS, which is very one-sided.

(3) Many content creators rely on SL for a good percentage of how their feed their families. For the same reason content thieves piss me off so much for this reason, the most affected content creators won't want to bite the hand that feeds them.

(4) There's precedent to be set in other realms first. Let's see what happens when a big media giant leads a class action against something like Google/Youtube first.

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I dont think Cel was directing his anger at anyone in particular. His cynacism is well earned. He wrote Sculptypaint and had just about everything he ever made stolen by this Pascal/Eva/Loni character and resold with his own TOS.

I think what he was saying Wilde is that he can now give away the content since it is useless.
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I'll take a stab at that one, in addition to what ZATZAi said. I don't think this is realistic at this point because:

(1) No current content creator has the horses, and someone has to lead a class action lawsuit.
A lawsuit of this magnitude would certainly eclipse $100,000 in INITIAL attornies fee's. Preparation of the case alone would take months. At $350-500 an hour. That adds up fast.

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(2) We all agreed to the ToS, which is very one-sided.
Lawyers love asymmetrical warfare, thats why they have "firms".

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(3) Many content creators rely on SL for a good percentage of how their feed their families. For the same reason content thieves piss me off so much for this reason, the most affected content creators won't want to bite the hand that feeds them.
The first thing LL will do once you initiate litigation is freeze your account. There are no labor laws protecting your right to work.

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(4) There's precedent to be set in other realms first. Let's see what happens when a big media giant leads a class action against something like Google/Youtube first.
Although there have been lawsuits for damages. I am not aware of any that specifically address "failure" to remove content or respond to DMCA.

Our saving grace here imho is OpenSim and the BILLIONS (*edit) that are being spent on alternative VW's.
Virtual Worlds Management

I have come to the painful conclusion that there is no possibility of LL amending their policies concerning content and governance. The system was broken from day one. OpenSim will offer grid owners/developers the opportunity to not make the same mistakes as LL. (they will make NEW, BIGGER ones) Griefers and thieves will be dealt with swiftly and decisively on the most popular new grids.

In many other worlds agregious behavior does not cater to public opinion or three day vacations. You're IP/MAC banned and thats the end of it. Otherwise, you become acquainted with the FBI or Interpol. There is no law that will protect thieves and griefers if they are bounced onto their asses by a TOS weilding owner. LL refuses to enforce it's own TOS, primarily because they do not agree with it. It is forced upon them by societal mandate.

Competition is the key. Residents will vote with their feet, just as residents of There.com and Sims Online have in the past. The good news is..no matter where we end up, we will all be there together

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Competition is the key. Residents will vote with their feet, just as residents of There.com and Sims Online have in the past. The good news is..no matter where we end up, we will all be there together
This one statement is the End Game to sooooooooo many of the problems we face in SL.

That said, I've decided to sell my land (no more tier to LL even via an estate owner, thank you very much) and I'm just going to hang around and bide my time hippie style (not SL hippie style, but the old meaning of the word) and "take advantage" of a friend's generosity and plop my show and studio on his sim rent free (he wants my traffic the bugger! ).

I am SO over giving money to this company that I'm willing to abandon my land if it's not sold by the next tier date. I just don't care anymore.

I will no longer be purchasing Lindens from anybody for anything and will spend whatever meagre amount I make in tips, product sales, or whatever with trusted and reputable vendors and creators from here on out.

I know I'll still be supporting Linden Lab financially in this manner but you can believe that it will be a damn sight less than I have in the past year +.

I've removed all reference to Second Life from my website other than a link pointing to the brand centre and a link to the thread discussing LL's trademark enforcement and it's effects on the community posted here at SLU.

On my show I no longer refer to Second Life. I've changed my language to "virtual metaverse" or whatever pops into my head that doesn't include "Second".

It's truly time for us to step up and get behind the "other projects" and help ensure this is not only done, but done properly.
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Old 06-18-2008, 01:51 PM   #84 (permalink)
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WE Have NO Rights in SL
Never have and never will.
The second you log in and create or upload something you have grated LL full rights.


LL's problem is they have allowed stolen content to remain in its data base for all to long, (maybe their too dumb to know how to do an SQL search).
They have even made money and still do on people paying teir on shops selling stolen goods and classified ads run by these people.
By allowing these places to continue to operate it leads the common SL user to believe these people are okay and the items/products they are selling comply and they have rights to sell them.
Other creators then may buy them and use them in their creations. And the longer LL allows all this to keep happening the more New creations this all affects.
Keep in mind tho this whole time LL has been making money off this illegal content in god only knows how many ways.
(here I stop and I think of all the fake malls that are fully rented with vendors that haven't logged on in a year)

If LL would remove the illegal items quickly and delete ban and burn the person that started selling them, (as LL is suppose to do BY Law), then this chain reaction would not be so wide spread.
Another problem is if you or I go around trying to warn people about these low life stealing bottom feeders we are quickly condemned by others. I have been threated and banned from groups and places for simply trying to warn others not to do business with some people.
And I'm sorry but if I see a name pop up and know that person is a rip off I will surly speak my mind.

I believe LL has a right to use the AV's name and remove illegal items and should give a weeks notice that they will be doing it.
But to just poof stuff without a warning is just plan stupid. Even more so when its stuff that They have allowed to be the market for so long.

Too delete items without warning and then to Try and reinstate the items as broken wothless junk and say all is good and it was a big mistake is the work of MORONs.


We have no rights, we Own nothing.
LL can poof SL at any minute.

Let me ask you this:
If you were to leave SL today, not log in, not pay fees.
But leave all your shops and items just as they were,
What do you think would happen to them ???

BTW, its good to see so many people PO'd and seeing some of the truth about SL.
Its all Smoke and Mirrors.

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It's breathtakingly arrogant for them to ignore your comment, and by extension the collective experience of the group you once led.
They do that on purpose.

An illustration:

In the Communication Linden's introductory blog entry (I THINK it was) after she first got the job, someone (maybe Universal Infinity? not sure) took it upon himself to post this little list of how all posters can be categorized into types.

And then he went on to categorize various people, after they posted!

By the time I posted something - a thought that had nothing to do with him or what he was up to - he had racked up some 12 posts (I forget exactly) out of the 150 allowed.

But he took up ANOTHER, just to tell me that my post was a waste of blog space!!!

So I took up another slot, saying that I was taking the unprecedented step of taking up another slot to say that the person wasting space was HIM, who at last count, had 12 (or however many) slots just to categorize other posters.

Whereupon he posted AGAIN, to say, "Make that 13!"

Well, eventually the Communications Linden posted, and one would have thought she might have said something about people hogging blog posts (particularly to categorize other posters in personal terms).

Instead, she thanked several posters for their comments, including . . . HIM.

SHE ACTUALLY THANKED HIM.

Made it pretty clear where I stood, alright, along with all the anyone else who didn't like what he was doing.

She probably told him privately to stop doing that, as he hasn't done it since. He might have been her friend in the first place, who knows.

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LOL But look, Katt's right there to call someone out for making multiple posts as different people.

I wonder if that counts as disclosure.
Oh really?

Well, see, some Lindens (if not most) are heavily into behavior modification. (Which is sort of social engineering on an individual scale.)

And some Lindens use their position to reward who they want (regardless of behavior), and put down others (regardless of behavior), and consider that not only their right, but the right thing to do, as part of "managing" people.

Well, that kind of "managing" tends to infuriate most adults, as does talking to them like they are in Romper Room, and telling them even how they should THINK - what THOUGHTS they should have! - in order to be good little Do-Bees. As another Linden does.

But oh well, I should just shut up. I DO know my place, lol. Never had much of a problem with that.

Plus I'm just pissing myself off.

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What a total cluster fuck. Why is there only a "Created By" and "Owned By" and not a "Last Modified By" field, at the least? I've shared my ideas for a better system (pre-registration of creations, vaulted information, etc) through SLPTO - Linden Lab asked me to take it down, which I'm doing.

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P.S. That blog entry regarding this content takedown seems to be closed to comments at comment #125.
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There were more, but they deleted 25 total comments. I archived it at various points; I just don't have the energy right now to go back through and find out what the deleted posts were.
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There were more, but they deleted 25 total comments. I archived it at various points; I just don't have the energy right now to go back through and find out what the deleted posts were.
Oh. Probably the ones they thought were the same person.

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Why?
Coco, if they added a "Last Modified", you could tell if someone (using me as an example):

(1) Took one of my scripts.
(2) Modified it completely and totally to make it do something evil (or illegally copy and paste someone else's script)
(3) Save it.

If someone does that right now, it will still show ME as the creator, rather than the person who last modified it, and make me look guilty rather than them. Make sense?

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I meant, why did LL ask you to take it down?

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I meant, why did LL ask you to take it down?

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While it didn't violate their new trademark rules to the letter, it did violate the spirit (of course, I started it before the new policy). It succeeded in getting them a lot of inquiries asking if they were actually doing the site, instead of me. I did have this right on the front page of the site, however:

"What we are not: we are not any kind of legal authority. We can not file a lawsuit on your behalf, and can not make a virtual world remove items. We seek to assist you in protecting your intellectual property, but should not be viewed as a governmental legal authority of any kind."

While the site never took off, it did get Linden Lab's attention that there was a need for this kind of service - and more importantly, real protection for people creating honestly within the medium. I consider that a success, and hope that many lessons have been learned.

For more information on what has been accomplished, swing by Blue Linden's office hours tonight at 4pm SLT!

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As I have said for too long now...
WE Have NO Rights in SL
Never have and never will.
The second you log in and create or upload something you have grated LL full rights.
Well. No, you haven't.
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