[Opensim-users] Speaking of Content Theft, How About Our Own Backyard?

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Len Brown wrote:
> 
>      I wonder if Lilith Heart, who has made her fortune selling an 
> endless variety of absolutely beautiful plants in Second Life knows that 
> her years of devoted and hard work have been cleanly ripped and 
> presented all over OSGrid?  And in what probably amounted to a couple 
> hours of image ripping and XML exporting...

In this case, it appears that Lilith imported the content herself.  See the first comment at

http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2010/01/why-i-never-go-over-to-opensim.html

> 
>      Sadly, there's not a single thing she can do.  Which is why, though 
> I happily imported my entire furniture and building collection into 
> OpenSim, not a single piece of it is (yet) available to the general 
> public on OSGrid.  I eventually plan to make it all available, but the 
> simple fact is, when I do, it will immediately be ripped to shreds and 
> will be found spread out all over the grid.  Not such a bad thing to one 
> degree since the furniture is all very highly detailed, but it will 
> surely put a very resoundingly obvious period at the end of my virtual 
> business endeavors.  In other words, I don't see a penny from it.
> 
> -- 
> - Len W. Brown
>   lenwbrown at gmail.com <mailto:lenwbrown at gmail.com>
> 
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