More on "The Case"

So it has hit the Associated Press which means you can find it just about everywhere: from newspapers to radio to TV, and of course all over the net. Some insightful discussions can be found on many of the SL forums, including SL Universe, Second Survivor, and the official SL forums (until the thread gets locked LOL).

I am going to add a link category (not right at this moment...but soon) to the side bar with bookmarks to media, blogs, and anything else related throughout this.

Be forewarned if you tend to get defensive about our Second Life. As usual, you have the naysayers, the ignorant, and the uninformed. It's extremely difficult to explain what Second Life is and isn't, and anyone who has tried will echo this sentiment I'm sure. And we always seem to carry a stigma due to the sexual content, which inarguably is a thriving portion of SL, but contrary to popular belief is certainly NOT a part of everyone's SL.

In the comments on today's Washington Post, the notorious Prokofy Neva claims to be the one who "broke" this. Well, fan or not, give the devil his due because he DID post the first related article that I know of on 10/22.

Next SLNN, Virtually Blind and SL Insider followed suit (no pun intended) and surprisingly, without much fanfare or comments. I tend to think this situation has thrown a lot of people for a loop.

Enter the New York Post on Sunday morning, complete with RL pic of the defendant, as well as quotes not only from him, but also a couple of the plaintiffs.

Monday morning is, of course, when everyone wakes up and gets back to work...google the case in question and you'll come up with several pages, both notable and not. Most feature the same AP article so it can be a bit of a scavenger hunt to find the ones featuring original reading. Information Week has one, as does Game Politics.

Your most intelligent discussions thus far though have come straight from our community in the aforementioned SL-related forums. They are not just "SL pwns vs. SL is teh suxxor." There is a lot of food for thought and copyright/DMCA/IP rights, etc going on.

I leave you with this: Let your favorite content creator(s) know how much you support them for the time and talent they put into making our world more beautiful everyday. Without them, we'd just be any other of the bunches of "virtual worlds" of which none even compare (or at least not yet) to Second Life. Be thankful for what we do have. And to those who say "get a real life"--I wonder what they did tonight after 10 hours of work for their lower-middle-class pay? Most likely they watched the boob tube and/or sat here trolling for stories to leave more scathing, uninformed comments on. I choose RL with a healthy dose of SL, where interactivity and creativity abound. I think DoC sums it up best with his store slogan: Your only limitation, is your imagination.

~QQ~