First let me say this: LL is not forbidden to take down anything it wants to take down. Read the TOS. It is their choice to do the bare minimum required by law; they are not required to do the bare minimum. The rewards of IP theft are now just too great -- and not just monetary. The store that got outed for stealing every single thing in their store from different 3D artists? Even before they opened their doors, they were blogged and celebrated as brilliant designers, over and over and over (I had never heard of them because I don't read blogs but after the Pinterest page appeared I did a search). It never seemed the least bit odd or unlikely to their fawning volunteer publicists that these two "creators" could go from building nothing* to developing professional level mesh skills in a very short time. Apparently other SL mesh creators are just dunces. Certainly it can make one feel a bit dim spending large amounts of time making mesh when one can get a lot more attention and money by just taking credit for other people's work. Last I heard, this store is still flourishing, still being promoted. Certainly no one has come forward to print anything like a retraction of their endorsements -- after convincing their readers that these frauds are legitimate they do nothing to enlighten them. Not their job I guess. They are not the only ones, of course. They just were not smart enough to cover their tracks very well. *One of them had done sim design, using other people's content, the other was a sim owner who hired her to design his sim. Then overnight everything on their sims showed them as creators, and next thing you know, they were mesh store owners!

Not okay with whom, tho? Since a lot of huge stores have popped up that do all these not okay things, including being 100% ripped, and there are no consequences, then in practice it is all okay. There needs to be a Consumer Reports or Protection for mesh, because consumers don't know what to do look for -- if they care, which I imagine many do not. Most creators don't, consumers even less. But that would mean that people would have to comb through hundreds of stores and 3D sites looking for matches, or go to stores looing at things in wireframe. http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Merchants/Can-I-sell-Turbosquid-stuff-in-a-store/td-p/2103441 So maybe these things should be, called"not considerate" instead of not okay.