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Does anyone wonder if we will eventually see Linden Lab starting to scoop up any of these URLs and brands for their own projects? | |
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Business: Peregrine Salon | I think we should start up SLAgePlay.com - since it has two common nouns, and all. I feel like I'm beating my head against a wall.Regards, -Flip
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SLFecalFetishists.com SLcaneataBagofDick.com Oh the possibilities are endless. The two noun thing is stupid. I don't get what the difference between SL plus one noun or two nouns is other than a pointless technicality. I mean Blizzard seems to allow third party sites to have WoW in their titles... like wowhead.com, wowiki, wowinsider etc. | |
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SL Join Date: 5/13/2006 | I joined in May 2006. It's mind-boggling to me how many poor decisions and horribly-worded communications I've seen in that short time. I don't have this much interaction with many companies, but I'd like to see one that considers their consumer less than SL™ does. Or one that shoots themselves in the foot more.
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Sometimes it seems as if Second Life as it is has no potential for longevity. Yes, it has paved the way for revolutionizing virtual worlds and for the potential that they can be used for, but as far as the platform goes Second Life will be crushed once a competitor does it better. Unless, however, if they are bought by Google or Microsoft. In which case, who knows a Microsoft virtual world would suck on principal. Google would probably have to rerwrite the entire codebase and make a 2.0 version that actually worked. | |
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Business: Peregrine Salon | The thing that gets me about the domain names is the only well known sites that follow SLnoun.com are run by people who've been incredibly involved and supportive of Second Life for *years*, often without pay (or minimal revenues, at best). Linden Lab encouraging us for so long, and now switching up? They really should have grandfathered those people who went out of their way to follow the previous policy. Regards, -Flip |
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Business: Peregrine Salon | The letter I posted was a form letter they lawyers wrote up, BTW - not a personal response from Catherine. I CC'd Catherine (who's on vacation) and hope to hear back directly from her. Just to clarify... Regards, -Flip |
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Business: ANOmations Blog Entries: 16 XBOX Leaderboard: 22nd | Yeah I know she didn't most likely write the form letter, but her responses in the blog have been pretty infuriating too. Yet, she is just the messenger. |
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As in I was surprised they didn't demand all old domain names turned over to them as well. | |
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Business: ANOmations Blog Entries: 16 XBOX Leaderboard: 22nd | That is the part that makes me even more angry - that they would not even allow forwarding of the old domain. Sites have built up search engine presences which would just be completely invalidated. It is so arrogant on their part it makes me want to fucking scream. |
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My Mood: | This is my advice, on my admittedly small understanding of trademark law. To sites that have been established for years prior to this announcement, tell them to fuck off. This trademark coup will not hold weight in court. They've used services with these domain names before. Your example of Torley is great, Torley's been sending shit to Snapzilla en masse before and after becoming a Linden. Collect emails documenting when you asked if it was okay, when you asked what the naming convention actually was. Demonstrate that they had no issue with it before. They can't just come now and decide years after the fact that somehow their inane and asinine trademark needs to be protected. They didn't care before, don't let them capitalize on us and our effort because they want an IPO. |
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Who has the money or motivation to then sue them to get back in? coco | |
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Business: Abbotts Aerodrome | If LL takes legal action against SLU for the sluniverse.com domain name that not only complied with previous rules, but also had the blessing of Linden Lab, I will shut down all of my activities in SL, close my Cubey Terra account, and use all of my spare time to convince anyone who will listen to go anywhere but SL for a metaverse presence. I can't believe they would use threats against the very people who promoted SL the most. This is inexcusable. I'm disgusted that they would turn on their user base with a 90 day ultimatum.
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Business: Scripter for hire XBOX Leaderboard: 37th | I would go even farther and put up money to help fight LL in court. Then I would leave and find a new home elsewhere. |
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![]() Cubey, I don't know if you recall, and I really don't expect you to, but back in the Recology Estate days you helped me out with a project by making your freebie Dolphin a temp on rez that we could provide residents with free sub rides and they'd of course disappear after use saving us a lot of headaches. What's more is you did that for FREE and I will never forget that. I will also never forget the IM conversations we had. I think I was only about 3 months in SL at the time and you were very accommodating and provided me with great insight and information. I have to admit to feeling a little special having had those conversations with you and they meant a lot to me and still do. I have the utmost respect for who you are and what you've done for SL and LL. With that said, I also have the utmost respect for Cris and SLU. If it ever comes to this I will also dissolve my SL interests and use my radio show to convince people the same. There is viable competition to this particular virtual world on the horizon and I will do my damnedest to promote there rather than in SL. Between myself and my affiliates we have brought quite a few people into SL and generated business. Yes I know, big deal right? But that is business that LL would otherwise not have been able to take advantage of. I think the days of LL taking advantage of anything or anyone are numbered by their own actions in this situation. If anyone has noticed my sig it contains my show's media links. You will also notice they're provided by "SecondlifeStream.com". Much like many others, Cruise has put a lot of time and effort into building his brand over the past 15 months with no objection from LL and he's now getting the "sorry, this is our decision and it stands" bullshit. The only question remains is - where to go? I hope that question answers itself in very short order. | |
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My Mood: | Tenshi see that little arrow next to Phoenix's name? Click it. Takes you to the quoted post. LL to enforce brand name |
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