Second Life Businesses Close Due To Cloning

Warren Ellis is reporting that many Second Life vendors are closing up shop due to the recent explosion of a program called "Copybot," designed to clone other people's possessions. From the article: "The night before last, I was looking around a no-fire combat sandbox, where people design and test weapons and vehicles, when an argument broke out; a thing going by the name Nimrod Yaffle was cloning things out of other people's inventories, and claiming he could freely do it because he'd been playing with Copybot with employees of SL creator/operators Linden Lab. All hell broke loose, in the sort of drama you can only find on the internet. Linden Lab's first official response? If you feel your IP has been compromised by Copybot, we'll sort of help you lodge a DCMA complaint in the US. Businesses started shutting down moments later." Update 20:43 GMT by SM Several users have mentioned that the Second Life blog has a few thoughts on this issue and quite a few comments from users already.

Re:value

[gEvil (beta)]

That's why I keep all my money invested in tulip bulbs...

Re:FP

[Anonymous Coward]

As the Register put it, Second Life is a game where: "people who have sex with dolls in real life can have sex with cartoon animals in fake life".

Re:Nimrod Yaffle, ex-con

[Anonymous Coward]

They sent him to the cornfield, eh?

It's a good Second Life.

Re:No need to RTFA...

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean the summary is a modified clone of the article?

Weirdest Second Life Experience

[QuantumFTL]

I started a SL account (should have canceled it sooner, hardly used it) under the nick JeanLucPascal and logged on to the n00b area. Five minutes later I hear the "Captain Picard" techno song playing from somewhere in the game... Someone must have uploaded it when they saw me (the only explaination that doesn't involve freak coincidence).

Anyways it gave the willies and I never played again!

Re:US mint verses online games

[Moofie]

Hold on. There exist ATMs that dispense GOLD!?

Re:value

[celardore]

How do you store gasoline for long periods of time? Can it be done? It's been stored underground for 60 million years or more...

That's just crude...

Re:value

[Maxo-Texas]

Money is a scoring system for how much we are willing to do to get scarce resources.

As long as *anything* is scarce, your society will never exist.

So...

Will beachfront property ever plentiful?
Will property in california ever plentiful?
Will the penthouse ever be plentiful?
Will the chance to screw the hottest model on the planet ever be plentiful?
Will the chance to attend the hottest parties ever be plentiful?
Will the funniest or smartest or best looking people ever be plentiful?