![]() ![]() ![]() (Indeed, Linden Lab reports that less than 100 complaints have been filed, a miniscule number in relation to the 200,000-plus who have been in-world during CopyBot's putative reign of terror.) And though my reader poll overwhelmingly criticizes Linden Lab's handling of the CopyBot crisis ( nearly 50% call it "Poor", while just under 13% describe it as "Good") it seems the company's ultimate response- explicitly making misuse of CopyBot a violation of Second Life's Terms of Service- has mitigated most of the outrage. ![]() But no one replied to my interview request. All signs of a thriving economy and a bustling society, not one teetering on the brink of disaster.Īfter running " Copying a Controversy" on November 17, I went in search of Residents who were directly damaged by the emergence of CopyBot, the third-party hack that enables some replication of some SL content, especially clothing and other avatar accessories that comprise the heart of the world's economy. As I write this sentence, at about 4:30pm SLT, nearly 15,000 Residents are currently in-world, while over the last 24 hours, the L$ equivalent of over $600,000 has traded hands. Last week it seemed as if it might savage the world, but less than seven days later, it's truly difficult to even find the damage, let alone assess it.
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