Consumer and creator angst over LL purge by Sansarya Caligari
June 15, 2008
Both Capalina and Arado seem to have also been baned as their profiles only appear under "Search All" and not under "Search People."
GRIDEWIDE - Content creators throughout the grid were given a shock when the items they created containing a free open source "Multi-Love Pose 1.2" script uploaded to Second Life by Eva Capalini were deleted from the grid by Linden Lab. A second sweep of content created by avatar Loni Arado was also purged, causing no end to grief for creators who had bought the full-perm items from both creators in good faith they were created by Capalini and Arado. Specifically, items which had the name "sexgen" were removed from the grid if Eva Capalona was listed as the creator of the item, causing many to believe that the problem was with SexGen items only. However, further searching showed that anything with a multi-pose script had been deleted as well, if Capalini was the creator listed for the item. "I now have to replace 50+ beds...they were $750L apiece!" said Crystalle Karami, owner of a rental development company in Second Life. Apparently, anything that was rezzed in-world with Eva Capalini or Loni Arado as the creator was wiped by Linden Lab. Items with those two creators' names that were in people's inventory remain.
Stroker Serpentine, creator of the original SexGen™ bed, commented that he had no knowledge of why the items were removed from the grid, though several had commented that their items were named "Sexgen" and Serpentine is known for having not only created the highly popular item but also for trademarking his bed name and winning a lawsuit against another avatar who stole Serpentine's script, animations and the "sexgen" name.
"All in all I am pleasantly surprised by the proactive responses towards content theft. That being said, I am very pessimistic that LL may have removed or intentionally borked an MLP script set because we DMCA'd or reported it. There are just too many variations of UUID's in terrabytes of data for them to accomplish that," Serpentine commented in the SL Forums.
Contacted this morning Serpentine confirms that he has no idea if this purge is at all related to “SexGen.”
What is the matter with you all? The itens in questions where from well known THIEFS, including a whole sim copybotted, even the trees were copybotted from a well known plants seller in sl! Now everyone that bought the stolen content is whining? Finally LL did the right thing - remove ripped itens from the database - and, it still not good? Oh, when someone gets ripped, they whine and say LL only removed the stuff from his store, and now its all over SL and its not right; but when they see their stuff made with ripped scripts and other sculpts are removed, its not right? What is it? This is too hipocrat, finally LL did the right thing and you all complain in forums, next time when you find a box of full perm scripts, sculpts, anims or objects, for 10l, you think twice! Go learn how to make your own stuff, and at least DONT complain if something u dont know where it comes from gets removed.
Posted By:
Ms. Right | Tuesday, June 17, 2008 01:51 PM
When a mass recall is done people are given a refund, it IS good LL stepped up, but bad hod LL handled this. How many thousands of dollars were lost by people because people bought something then it was wiped. There should have been notices of this coming and people SHOULD have been given a refund. How would you like your inventory wiped with no refund for any of the stuff you paid for, bad or good product?
It will not surprise me if someone goes after LL for just wiping $100+ rl with no warning or refund.
Posted By:
think about it... | Wednesday, June 18, 2008 04:30 AM
I was misquoted, the bed was copiable. The price was 750. Thought it was full of freebies and I didn't even try it before buying.
My time, however, to put all these down 50+ times over is worth more than that.
And I wonder whether the copyleftist Lindens who were ordered to do this made sure to swipe opensource free products too so they could later say in staff meetings, "See, it's impossible to do this right so let's not do it."
;)
