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  1. You are definitely feeling over-optimistic. Linden Labs is lulling us to sleep with nonbinding assurances in the Dashboard that, oh, they'd never dream of stealing our content (because we've already agreed it all belongs to them in order to log onto the service - an agreement reached under duress if I ever saw one).
  2. You just might have signed the document that lets Ebbe Altberg and his monkeyboys at Linden Labs empty the bank account you linked to Linden Labs. I personally don't believe in signing ANY TOS without reading it thoroughly. Specifically, I don't remember THIS section of the ToS from before: "1.2 The Service exists only as long as and in the form that we may provide the Service, and all aspects of the Service, including your User Content, are subject to change or elimination. Linden Lab has the right to change, limit access to, and/or eliminate any aspect(s), feature(s) or functionality of the Service (including your User Content) as it sees fit at any time without notice, and Linden Lab makes no commitment, express or implied, to maintain or continue, or to permit open access to, any aspect of the Service. You acknowledge that your use of the Service is subject to this risk and that you knowingly assume it and make your decisions to participate in the Service, contribute Content and spend your money accordingly. Linden Lab may, but will not have the obligation to display, maintain, or otherwise make use of, any of your User Content, and Linden Lab may, in its sole discretion, modify, delete, or otherwise make use of User Content without notice or any liability to you or any third party. Linden Lab reserves the right to treat User Content on the Service as content stored at the direction of users for which Linden Lab will not exercise control except to block or remove content that comes to Linden Lab’s attention and is offensive, obscene, abusive, illegal or otherwise objectionable to Linden Lab, or to enforce the rights of third parties or the content restrictions set forth below (in Section 7), when notice of their violation comes to Linden Lab’s attention. Such User Content submitted by you or others need not, however, be maintained on the Service by us for any period of time and you will not have the right, once submitted, to access, archive, maintain, or otherwise use such User Content on the Service." In other words, we can lose or delete any Inventory or things you built over many years, or paid for with REAL MONEY, just because. Perhaps I just had a will to believe that LL would deal with its customers in an equitable manner and didn't see that before. Certainly, SecondLife needs to tell Second Lifers which legal rights they're surrendering TODAY by agreeing to updated Terms of Service. Just recommending that Second Lifers carefully peruse a document that runs to several dozen paragraphs for revisions couched in a few of those paragraphs REEKS of deception. It would be much more honest if Linden Labs, when promoting Second LIfe Marketplace as much as it does, would just as brazenly say out loud that nothing you buy there is guaranteed to be or remain yours to use, and that all the money Second Lifers invest in inventory is essentially flushed down the toilet whenever Linden Labs decides this is in its best interest. Or, as Shakespeare put it in "The Tempest," "The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep." Or, more elegantly: "When you log on and find the stuff you paid several THOUSAND Lindens on is gone entirely, you're just **bleep** out of luck. Don't bother us, we don't care."
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