As everyone knows, there has been an ENORMOUS wave of content theft and texture ripping going on in recent weeks. While content theft is most likely here to stay (unless Linden Labs decides to pull their thumbs out of their asses and actually do something about it), there are several things you can do to voice your opinion.
I saw this picture posted by a Flickr contact this morning:
While I have no idea who made the original image, the image itself is apparently free for the taking and encouraged for use in promoting action against content theft in Second Life.
For those of you not keeping up with the news, there have been many developments in recent days… including drastic measures taken by Emilia Redgrave of Redgrave and Minnu Palen of Minnu Model Skins. Emilia, in response to the thievary, has announced that she may possibly leave Second Life over the lack of action by Linden Labs. Minnu has said that she will not be making any new releases until action is taken to prevent or punish these thieves. And rightly so! While it is, indeed, tragic to feel the need to punish the entire fashion community over texture theft, I have to tip my hat to these ladies. Shake things up, cause a ruckus, get some exposure, and make a difference. More power to you both. You make me so fucking proud.
If you’d like to join in the protests, there have been many outpourings of radical releases in support of punishment for texture/intellectual property theft. You can pick up a skin from LaynieWear, and there are many protest signs about for the taking, I’m sure.
With all that said… no one ever made waves by standing still.
Just a heads up, the skins are copy/transfer, so anyone can pass them along, set them up in their shops, whatever. Pass them along. :D
And just to clarify what Laynie just said guys, she means the skin she made to PROTEST the skin theft, not the ones that are being ripped off. :P LOL!
I totally agree with you… I was shocked to learn that Emilia Redgrave might leave SL (I only wear her stuff…) Everybody needs to know this and especially newbies who don’t know better and buy the illegal skins and clothing… from these thieves!
i like hearing designers who steal their textures off of rl designers websites to make their stuff then complain