SLEX DCMA’s: Violation of Linden Lab TOS « Shopping Cart Disco

SLEX DCMA’s: Violation of Linden Lab TOS « Shopping Cart Disco

There's something to be said for everyone getting booted off the grid for twelve-plus hours while LL fights with its internet service provider.

Tenshi Vielle of Shopping Cart Disco fame brought to my attention today a stunning blunder worthy of the fumble of the year award.

In the article she quotes an original piece explaining how SLX's butterfingers handling-style has caused one SL organization to suddenly understand the meaning of the phrase "personal space". I'll let you read the articles for yourself, but the point of this post is -- we need to send a message to SLX and tell them that it is, in general, not a good idea to fork over our personal information to people who were already causing us harm without concern for our emotional or financial well-being. It sounds like what could only be a major oversight -- at least, I hope. No major business I've ever worked with has directly sent a DMCA to an offender because they knew what kind of information was on it.

Let's do something about this before more respectable developers have to give up their peace of mind. And let's ask that they be compensated for this pain in the ass, while we're at it.

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1 comments:

  1. Ari Blackthorne™ Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 9:55:00 PM PDT

    I never, ever have liked or trusted the SL Exchange owner or his moderators. It's just plain fishy the way things go on there. Like the way Anshe Chung got her own full-blown category for L$10 furniture and the likes.

    It's why all my stuff is at OnRez.com and only a few 'sampler' items are at SLX.

    It seems to me, PXL could file an abuse report against SLX to Linden Lab... Hell, I'd give it a try.