Marty Schwimmer tipped me to the controversy swirling about use of a CopyBot tool in Second Life. (Go read Marty's terrifically headlined post: CopyBot Terrorizing Residents Of SecondLife, Caught On ...

"Scores of Second Life shop owners on Wednesday closed their stores in protest against Linden Lab and threatened the creator of the online fantasy world with a class-action suit, saying the company ...

Groups of Second Life content creators were gathering digitally Tuesday to protest the dissemination of a program they worry could badly damage the virtual world's nascent economy. The controversy ...

Ever since the original panic over Copybot (a Second Life bot that was trivially equipped to duplicate geometry or avatars) there's been a recurring series of rumors about Copybot 2.0, starting from ...

What would happen to business and society if you could easily make a copy of anything - not just MP3s and DVDs, but clothes, chairs and even houses? That may not be a problem most of us will have to ...

There are many things that have helped the virtual world Second Life grow, including behavioral freedoms, fantastical outfits, buildings and vehicles, complex socialization and more. But it is perhaps ...

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