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On 15/3/2010 20:27, Peter Swales wrote: > As someone who uses a declawed copybot (limited to my own created items > only) to copy from main grid to my openserver and back I find what New > Hax is saying disgusting, People make valid real money off what they > make, just because it is in ones and zeroes makes no difference, an > apple is just protons and electrons, it is how they are put together (if > you excuse the rather bad analogy XD) you have no right to steal the > product because of what medium it is in. > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Maya Remblai > <snowfox...@dragonkeepcreations.com > <mailto:snowfox...@dragonkeepcreations.com>> wrote: > > Hm, yes, I suppose that is true. My mind works mostly in absolutes, it's > easier to just count all the stolen freebies as lost sales. You're > right, however. My mistake. It was probably fueled by my general bad > feelings about the incident, because I DO use my earnings in the real > world, and I also have a strong sense of justice. It bothers me more > than it should when someone can steal content and go virtually > unpunished. Even the first thief who was permabanned was back with an > alt right away. > > Maya > > Carlo Wood wrote: > > Not entirely true, first of all, he didn't steal any money from > > you, nor any goods; unless you suddenly saw a significant drop > > in revenue then nothing really happened, financially spoken. > > > > It certainly isn't true that if he did NOT give that box to > > those ten people that all ten would have come to you and spend > > L$ 40,000 in your shop. > > > > In fact, most people spend a fixed amount of money in SL. If > > they get anything for free on top of that, it doesn't cause > > them to spend less real money. > > > > So, surely, you didn't get any MORE money because of this.. > > but you didn't *lose* $1500 either, not even a fraction of that. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges > > > > > -- > perl -ple'(/[^.-\s]/)?(s.[^a-z0-9\s].$_=unpack"B*",$&;y;01;\n`;;lc.ge > <http://lc.ge>,y. > `-z0-9.ajzges}mqo{hrkxypibuw|vnt...@px\\^_ogca.,s-\S-(unpack"B*",$&)." " > -ge,s-\b01+0--g,y,01,-.,):(y,-.,01,,s,([01]+),0 .1x(6-length$1).0 .$1,ge > ,s-\b([01]+) ?-pack"B*",$1-ge,y.ajzges}mqo{hrkxypibuw|vnt...@px\\^_ogca. > `-z0-9.,s-([\n`]{8})-$_=$1;y;\n`;01;;pack"B*",$_-ge)' > > > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuexGsACgkQ8ZFfSrFHsmXjsACfUGvhGlf6xD0XQ5BDpndfJ88Y wawAn1PKt0gMoMUSMnOX6zTQbX0bkb+t =WJn2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
