Min Barzane

DMCA isnt alarm bell or a lock,nothing even close to it! Alarms and clocks are ment to stop and warn BEFORE theft! DMCA is only use AFTER theft and AFTER theif has been cought! "What we need is shoot to kill defense before actual theft hapens! Theif uses ilegal viewer,SL server detects it and sends "fry graphics" or some other equaly nasty thing to thefs computer! Barbicue!!! btw idk is that possible but would be sweet if it was! " None of the above. My answer is "dunno"." That is type of answer i was looking for,not all other BS you and others wrote!

"This was done to placate creators crazy about protecting their precious intellectual property. The result is the increasingly static, "behold the pretty pixels" Second Life." WTF??? It is not matter of IP rights! It is matter of theft! What if i come to your house RL and take your TV? Or take your jewlery? Or empty your fridge? Will you call cops? Will you?? Yes! Wel with attitude you have all i would have to say to cops is that you are paranoid and property doent matter! You come to my house and try taking someting ill shot ya! Digital ownership is same as Rl ownership! Copybotters came to my "house" and stole whats myne! Difference is irl i can have alarms,locks on doors n stuff!Theif IRL wont make an alt and come again! Once he is in jail hes is in jail! In SL its completly different story! No alarms,no locks on doors,no way of stopping theifs! Why? becouse LL dosent give us an tools to protect ourselves! Its all open doors! And no i am not just paranoicd IP property crazy creator! Try burning a movie,if you get cought lets see how much will you pay in fines! I am not any different from movie company,or game company! My intelectual property is MYNE! You steal from me ,you get cought,you pay for damage done! End of story!

Mesh cube or any mesh for that matter cant carry "far less than 1 prim" ! Just half less or half prim land impact! Prim cube is just mesh cube with more verts than it actualy needs,noting more! Mapping is story for itself! But in end it all comes to prim cube IS mesh! 3d model! Mesh is just name for 3d models thats used in SL to be different than everyone else! Sculpts are also mesh,3d models! Prims,sculpts,mesh...all 3d models made from same thing,vertecies,edges and faces!

So in end what all of you are saying noting can and will be done to prevent or atleast slow down copybotters??? Only thing to do is hope you wont get hit and if you do file DMCA and hope for best?

Prims are mesh! Avatars are mesh! From day 1 od SL! Cube is always a cube,no mater how much you strch,twist and retexture it!ITS A CUBE! You missed the point btw!

I didnt say anywhere to limit any abilities to anyone! I sayed that well known creators,long lasting buisnesses with good reputation should get more Lindens atention! Making mesh isnt just uploading default box from blender! Same as building isnt just rezzing a box! Some ppl have knowlige of making mesh but they dont have talent! You need both to make anyitng good! Its not just "rezz a box" thing Not all ppl can do it! If everyone in Sl could build,texture or make mesh there woudlnt be any buyers,no income,noting to sell cos everyone would make their own stuff! But they dont! There is big difference between your every day resident and a creator! But hat all is becinde the point! Question was and still is "WILL LL EVER DO ANYTHNG TO STOP COPYBOTERS/CONTENT THEFT? WHAT DO YOU THINK? " Yes? No? maybe

Everyone on planet is capable to make a cake! Ill give 100 ppl all ingreedients,all stuff they need to make exactly same cake! How manny will actualy make it? Maybe 5! And thats with using writen recepie! Same is with mesh! Anyone can download program for creating it but how manny ppl will acualy have knowlige and talent to make it! From 100 ppl maybe 1! We all have 2 arms,2 legs,same body anatomy,we are capable of same motions but can we all do same things? NO! So no, not everyone in SL can make mesh even if they choose to! I can,can you? And yes i know how it works!

Freya i dont know how interent functions per se but i know noting can realy be hiddein online,not from ppl who know how to get to it! "All Second Life users have equal capabilities" Ummm nope,not even close! Some can make mesh,some can make textures,some can make animations,some script and some cant even wear a box on their head if life depended on it! So NO,all SL residents are NOT equaly capable! That's how its always been and will be! Who contribues more to SL? Me as creator or some noob freebie hunter? Who makes more income for LL? Mesh ripping IS same as copybotting,same tools used and same end result! Stolen work! Becouse now days copyboters dont rip sculpts and textures,sounds animations! They rip MESH! And to get mesh back in SL they NEED payment info on file! There is no other way to upload it!

"As for the fine, how would LL fine someone and collect without RL information? " Well Amethyst LL does have RL info thru payment info required for anyone who uploads mesh and thats what todays copyboters do! How does lets say Turbosquid solve copyright infrigements,they have legal team that does all paperwork in behalf of their users/creators! LL could do same! SL is online service,on internet you can track anything,nothing can be raly hidden! If LL cant or doesnt know how to track down copybotters or ilegal viewers hire someone who knows how,hire a hacker for pete sakes! Someone with long lasting reputation as creator and who knows how much money spent on uploads,buisness with good standing reputation should have some advantiges over every day SL user! Creators bring unique content in to SL! I can without any doubt say 99% of SL is user made! Creators must have better protection for their work and LL MUST provide it! If they dont SL will end up as copybot land! All creators will leave,shutdown their stores,tier for land wont be payed and in end SL will die off! Manny have already left becouse of lindens incompetence to protect what makes SL SL!!!! You know that with todays mesh copybots creators can expect that their unique creations will end up on turbosquid or any other 3d market,and they wont get a dime out of it! SL is first line of defense! LL Must give us better weapons to fight theifs and stop them!

Answering question with question shows how much you care! What they CAN do is completly remove ability of viewer to export anything directly in source code (that you can get directly from LL website) ,that way not even 3rd party viewers could be exploted to make copybot enabled viewers! Block any old viewers! MAC bann all known copybotters! And trust me LL knows who they are!

Will Lindens EVER do anyting to stop copyboters???

Well LL finaly decided to start fixing MP

still not working for me

Tenly you dont have to combine diffuse (texture),normal(shaddow) and specular (shine) in to 1 texture! You apply them to your model inworld,in texture tab you have 3 layers ment for them!

"good with general Computer knowlage i can repair hardware and diagniose software. Can work on PC's Macs and some Linux issues" yes yes you and 90% ppl in SL What are your Second Life related skills? Can you build? Can you make textures? Mesh? Can you model? From your post it looks like you are looking for RL job,not SL inworld job!

With that attitude you only show to be a drama queen....expect free stuff just cos you think you deserve it! Wear big girl panties and pay for work done like eweryone else does!

WTH??? You expect someone to just give you good quality products full perm and free? Whats that you smokin? Gime some!!!!

yww

If its completly your build,prims,sculpts and ewerything made by you you can use firestorm viewer to export it as collada file and than import it in blender

Yup,you get it when you buy lolas

Welcome to SL Mike! Just one thing...SL isnt a game...SL is an empty canvas and you are an artist...SL is what you make of it....soon as that sinks in you will have more fun than you can imagine!

If clearing cache dosnt do the trick kiss your stuff goodbye! Also 20k items is drop in water comparing to what most ppls inventory size is!

When timer hits 29 seconds log out...that will prevent you crashing on 30 seconds limit...problem solved! NEEEXT

You managed to figure all that in 3 minutes? WOW I wonder what would you do if you had more time! Solve world energy problems maybe? Oooor cure cancer? OMG there is no limit what you can do with more time than just 3 minutes!

Honestly none can telly you whats best for you,you have to try and find what you like,one that suits your porpose! Tons of ppl will say "myne is best" but thats just empty bragging,only driver can judge! You can pay 5000L$ for awsome looking bike that handles like a mule or get freebie that drives like a dream....explore,try demos...find one you like best!