copying, copying, copying…

metavirtualSL 3 months ago on Twitter

New Syndication, copying, copying, copying… - http://tinyurl.com/yke2o8v

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Lizzie Lexington 3 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress

I totally acknowledge the fact that you are doing your part in the way feel is best for you and I applaud that, but “punishing customers”? That seems a bit extreme in way to say they are being “punished”. I feel my inner snark coming out so I apologize in advance, LOL, but I don’t recall having to seek therapy for not buying a virtual product if a store was closed – I did not feel “punished”. If I wanted it bad enough I waited till the store was again open. This is not real life and we are not talking about a shut down on black friday. Okay enough said hugs to you. ... See all content Hide content

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Lizzie Lexington 3 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress

Protests are often about empowerment for the individual. Yes it may not make a difference to the Lab but the simple of act of doing something to let your voice be heard can make a difference for the individual and their social connections related to the cause. Its about coming together and expressing concern for a common belief or issue. What one person views as a harmful protest another views as letting their voice be heard. Empowerment can help move an individual in a new directions and perhaps even help with the creative process.

And I fully agree with your point that when it comes to content theft education is the key. And yes I am in artist’s voice but I am currently the lead for the consumer team. And in our first project we intend to focus on the newbies of second life – meeting with them in infohubs, newbie community locations, etc etc and helping them understand and learn how to identify stolen content. And with this being said, I am now going to shamelessly promote my little blog post LOL http://lizzielexington.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/yes-hell-has-frozen-over-lizzie-is-working-with-tenshi/ which gives even more details about artists voice. Thanks! ... See all content Hide content

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Ewan Mureaux 3 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress

Seriously the best article I have read, one that actually reads like it was written by a real person. Calling boycotts is great when you yourself produce fuck all and don’t need your sales to pay the bills that still come in regardless of what you do because as you say LL don’t give a fuck.

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luth brodie 3 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress

You know full well I just wanted an excuse to talk about punching Hamlet in the face. His blog comments were having issues and I was past due on posting here

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Roslin Petion 3 months, 1 week ago on Twitter

shares http://tinyurl.com/yke2o8v (Luth On Copybotting) http://plurk.com/p/2gqflg

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luth brodie 3 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress

@Annyka Bekkers – 10 points for completely missing my point.

I was calling him out for being a douche for his crass and irresponsible post based completely on false correlation.

If you want people to counterpoint with actual facts, starting it with wild accusations and unsubstantiated conjecture is the wrong way to go.

@Chez Nabob – All excellent points. +20 points for sheer awesomeness.

It is impossible for anyone to give complete facts as it stands now. There are too many factors and too much information not available to us.

If copying was the only problem with sales, if we could track down every single transaction of a stolen item, if we could get factual data on each transaction on if the person would have paid full price and get LL to release said data then we would have solid data on the effect of copying. But that is impossible.

You also can’t get actual hard data on how much is lost due to time spent dealing with the infringers. We don’t make an hourly wage here. Whether a specific product will sell is a complete crap shoot. The item may just not be interesting to buyers. There may be hunts that people are focused on. Someone “bigger” could have released on the same day. There could just be too many releases that day and it gets lost in the shuffle. Competitors could be having sales. The grid could be shit that day. It’s the reason why most people produce on a constant basis, because 1 thing could take off while 4 others flounder.

At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how much money is being lost. The social implications of it is devastating enough. And ignoring that especially for false correlation is a slap in the face. Hamlet it touting the party line with fingers in ears going “la la la everything is fine, nothing is wrong, you people are crazy to think otherwise.” And frankly it disgusts me that anyone would give him merit.

A person put in blood, sweat and tears to create something from nothing and some jackass comes along, takes it for himself, passes it around and many times profiting from it. The more that happens, the less likely someone will put that effort into it. The less amount of interesting places to see, things to do and items to acquire, the less fun SL is for everyone.

It’s giving content creators a bad reputation as greedy for wanting to protect their rights.

It’s illegal and LL isn’t doing a damn thing to stop it. ... See all content Hide content

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Adrian Cutler 3 months, 1 week ago on Twitter

RT Nice posting.. read it! @Jells Good post @Luthi - Bravo http://budurl.com/z486 #SLRevolution

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Annyka Bekkers 3 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress

“4. Did he even think to bother to get actual data from someone willing to give absolute proof of what copyright infringement has done to their business? ”

Wasn’t that the explicit aim of his article? Everybody’s pillorying Hamlet, but NOT ONE person has taken up his challenge and offered up any evidence, anecdotal or empirical, about how ripping has hurt their business . I’m reading a ton of conjecture, but absolutely nothing solid. I’d love to hear some solid evidence of what the true impact of all this theft is. ... See all content Hide content

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Luthi 3 months, 1 week ago on Twitter

Well look at that... I can still write for The Rev: http://bit.ly/qZKZS

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