As one of the overwhelming number of residents who paid good linden for the genuine purchase of Sexgen-based products, I am sure I am not alone in hoping that common sense will prevail in any forthcoming DMCA inspired takedowns. The products I paid for in good faith from merchants acting on behalf of the creators who made them when I paid for them ought not be arbitrarily borked just because they happened to have been made full perm after the fact.
I feel for the creators such as Corsi who've put in a lot of work on this product and I can well understand their anger at the prospect of their own business being undermined. They didn't intend for their work to be made free to all, I understand that. Likewise I did not buy licensed copies of their work only to find them scratched from my inventory at a later date. There was every reason for me to expect that these were and are still merchants of good repute. There was every reason to expect the products I bought from these accomplished creators would work and continure to work and certainly no "caveat emptor" message at their respective vendors to indicate otherwise.
Of course I am cynical enough from past events not to get my hopes up. I imagine that once enough shouting has happened that LL will be compelled to the equivalent of shooting a cannon to kill a fly and I will have yet another reason to think twice before spending money in-world on other people's hard work.
Animations in Stroker Serpentine's SexGen 5.0 engine
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As one of the overwhelming number of residents who paid good linden for the genuine purchase of Sexgen-based products, I am sure I am not alone in hoping that common sense will prevail in any forthcoming DMCA inspired takedowns. The products I paid for in good faith from merchants acting on behalf of the creators who made them when I paid for them ought not be arbitrarily borked just because they happened to have been made full perm after the fact.
I feel for the creators such as Corsi who've put in a lot of work on this product and I can well understand their anger at the prospect of their own business being undermined. They didn't intend for their work to be made free to all, I understand that. Likewise I did not buy licensed copies of their work only to find them scratched from my inventory at a later date. There was every reason for me to expect that these were and are still merchants of good repute. There was every reason to expect the products I bought from these accomplished creators would work and continure to work and certainly no "caveat emptor" message at their respective vendors to indicate otherwise.
Of course I am cynical enough from past events not to get my hopes up. I imagine that once enough shouting has happened that LL will be compelled to the equivalent of shooting a cannon to kill a fly and I will have yet another reason to think twice before spending money in-world on other people's hard work.
Que sera sera.