My view on Linden Lab’s midnight DMCA raid

I’ve had a chance to think about the Lindens’ unannounced erasure of allegedly pirated inventory items over the weekend, and what I’ll say probably will stun those who’ve seen my ongoing criticism of the way that they’ve conducted their business. I am 100% behind Linden Lab on this. To explain further, I have a few [...]

DMCA crackdown in Second Life (FINALLY?)

I’m not fully up-to-speed on this issue, but I’ve seen a couple blog posts that refer to a mass deletion from the Second Life database of presumedly pirated intellectual content… Linden Lab’s Big Content Takedown – Massively Linden Expunges Illegal Multi-Position Sex Beds – Second Thoughts Again, I don’t know anything about this…but it appears [...]

Random musings about things griddish

It was another crazy day in RL today, so please bear with me while I vent as I review my NetVibes collection of Second Life-related blogs: The Second Life blog is old news. If you really want to know what’s going on in Second Life, you need to pay close attention to the Second Life [...]

Linden Lab’s “stand” on intellectual property says…

…it’s your responsibility.  Not theirs. Now, if the Lindens put some vigorous enforcement into DMCA reports, we might be getting somewhere.  But to tell the userbase that it’s THEIR responsibility to inspect individual items before purchasing…well, that’s crap and we all know it.  Especially when one of the commenters on their blog post reframes the [...]

SL Post of the Week

All hail the Second Life Herald: Long overdue and demanded by countless residents, Linden Lab introduced a new set of rules for residents and other people on the use of the company’s trademarks earlier this week. Much-lauded by numerous blogs, Linden Lab’s move highlights the company’s strong commitment to its customer base and is the [...]

Second Life® bloggers require clarification

Dear Linden Lab®, Your recent change of policy regarding the usage of your trademarks — Second Life®, Linden Lab®, and others registered by Linden Research Inc. — will effectively prevent the operation of the very vibrant community of bloggers, forum posters, websites, community portals, and even 3rd party services, that have provided Linden Lab® with [...]

If LL is taking ‘SL’, I am taking ‘DD’…. More on Brand Madness

As Morris posted HERE, LL wants their eyeball hand all to themselves, and wants no one to ever infringe upon the words “second” and “life” together. Disclaimer: This picture posted in this blog in no way reflects anything to do with the company known as “Linden Lab” and the product “Second Life” Furthermore, this “Second [...]

Linden hypocrisy re: intellectual property

From Miss Hera, posted on the JIRA: “Linden Labs should”, unforturnately isn’t the same as ‘linden labs does”. Look up the amount of resold stolen item and the percentage of items where linden labs removed the UUID after a DMCA. I’ve got a nice collection of stolen skins  of which all still work and none [...]

Brand madness

Linden Lab announced a new policy on the use of its trademarked brand.  Reuters regurgitates it here. Raul Crimson is confused by it.   The Secondlife Newspaper (Good luck keeping that name on your publication!) offers a wee bit of insight that sanity could prevail.  Vint Falken suggests both the silliness and the reality of [...]

I complain because I love

Harper’s comment about the increasingly dour tone of this blog in recent weeks has had me reflecting on why I would be going in this direction. I think I’ve come up with a couple notions. To preserve the visual integrity of this blog, I’ll put my extended thoughts after the fold. Read on…