[Warning Artists in SL: LL's New TOS Hi-Jacks Your IP]

I  have been in business in SL for over 3 years, I have a store for furniture, as well as a 4 floor art gallery, shopping mall and rent some skyboxes.

The new ToS has stopped me uploading any more artwork and I am seriously considering my future in SL as a result. I am not happy to hand over rights to them to do with as they wish. Linden Lab have made a very bad judgement on this and sims are going dark and people are leaving. The words "sell, re-sell" are clearly in the ToS and they are out to make money from the hard work of their residents and merchants. Enough is enough.

Chances are high that by the end of the month I will be clearing my store, art gallery and mall and cancelling my account. They are killing the SL economy and are strangling creativity. Also they are doing what an copy botter was doing (and been condemned for) tied up with ToS.

Shame on you LL and probably goodbye from me.

[No Sound]

Well I have been in SL for nearly a year now, never had a problem. Logged into SL today. No sound on anything. PC sound works with or without headphones. Just not in SL. All the sliders are on etc etc etc. Does not even work for me in a different viewer. Reloaded viewers. Nothing. Wish I knew how to get sound back, I do not even hear ambient sounds.

[Low Skyboxes Ruining Skyline]

Thank you all for your views and I would like to thank Hugsy esp for making the visit. You really do not have to look up much at all to see these monstrosities. It is only common courtesy, I would have thought to put something up beyond skyline view and anyway, the higher you are the more private it is and lag free surely?

But I guess you will always have those who do this because "they can" and it is "their land" where as I like to be a considerate land owner and make my areas pretty with birdsong, water features etc. It isn't hard, after all, to make the area pretty for your fellow residents.

Reducing my own draw distance will not stop it being seen by my customers or visitors and there should be some ruling of a minimum height for skyboxes. Yes I have sky boxes I rent out, but these start at 1000m well out of view.

Thanks once again for your interesting views and replies

Rhiannon Wildmist

[If you own a region worth of mainland can you homestead?]

Try living in Europe and paying 20% tax on top of all these fees now THAT is outch !

[Low Skyboxes Ruining Skyline]

At my main store site in Koschuta, there are four skyboxes at platforms which are clearly in view if you just glance up above the roof areas...these must be as low as 300 or 400 metres and spoil the skyline and make it all ugly. I have put in ARs but nothing is done. Surely skyboxes should be at say, a minimum of 1000m, there is no need for them to be this low. Why have a lovely SL sky for it to be spoiled by this? Is there any ruling on it? Can anything be done?

 

[Customer Support your views.]

I am glad someone is the enternal optimist. I had one instance where I complained for five months by AR and ticket about a spamming greeter from land on a neighbouring sim greeting all my customers. Land owner absent. Object owner did not respond to IMs or notecards.  When I gave up and moved on and rented the land my friend. She was already aware of the greeter issue and managed to solve it by dragging the object owner back from Inworldz to remove it.-  LL did nothing.

Recently I have had objects encroaching on another plot. Anchors on neighbours land (his last log on time "unknown"). Object owner not interested. Been ARing since February, told twice on Live Chat this was an AR only issue. So no. I have very little confidence in LL "support". One object overhung my land putting over 6m out of use ! I did not derender because my visitors could still see the offending megaprim and that did not solve the problem.

I do wonder what I am paying land maintenance for. Certainly get nothing in return for it.