The blogosphere is certainly buzzing of late between stolen skins, mainland zoning rules and overpriced shoes. I decided to stick my two cents in. This is really just my opinion on a few of the hot topics out there.
First, stolen skins. Stolen anything is deplorable. Taking someone else’s work and passing it off as your own to sell is wrong. End of story. To me, that is a very black and white issue. I don’t know of anywhere in the world RL or SL where theft is condoned. In some parts of the world they chop off your hand if you are caught stealing. ‘Nuff said.
Mainland Zoning. This is a sticky issue. I see the need for zoning when new continents are added to the grid. At the minimum some kind of covenant should be adopted. For existing continents it’s a bit trickier. You have folks living and working all over the mainland. These folks are good people just going about their SL lives. Bought land, built a home or started a business. Whatever they are using their land for, it’s theirs and they should be able to rest assured that the land surrounding them won’t turn into a blinking neon sex advertisement. Here is where the problem is, the mainland has no rules, no covenant, no zoning. It’s essentially a free for all with land speculators snatching up land, splitting it up, putting up eyesores and then selling it off at ridiculous prices. So, I applaud LL for wanting to do something about it. Will it be easy? No. It needs to be done though.
Overpriced shoes . Stilletto Moody was having a sale. 40% off the older styles. Sounds good huh? Yeah I thought so too. I’ve heard all the hype about these shoes and boots. Seen the ads. And wow at the ads! So, had to go check them out. Couldn’t get to the sim cause I wasn’t in the group. Ok, no big deal, drop a group and add that one. TP to the sim. When everything finally rezzed I went in the store. And nearly died of a coronary when I saw the prices. You have to be kidding me? $1,000L for a pair of shoes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not this person! I looked at the sale stuff. I didn’t like any of the styles enough to part with my lindens and the fact there were no demos just confirmed I wouldn’t be buying. It’s not that I couldn’t afford it. I could have. But geez, I can think of better things to spend my money on. Maybe if I had fallen in love with a pair of them and could have tried them on I may have forked out the moola but it just wasn’t happening for me. So, tp’d home and left the group.
After my little pixelated heart started beating again after seeing the prices of those shoes I started going thru my inventory. Why did I buy half of this stuff? Did I really actually pay for that? EEP. If you IM me and I don’t answer, it’s cause I’m stuck under a pile of unwanted clothing and shoes and hair. I wonder if there is an Island of Misfit clothing? Opens search…
Tags: content theft, mainland zoning, over priced shoes, second life, sl, stolen skins
With regards to the shoes, I probably would have done the same thing Bails. I have a hard time parting with anything over 350L without a demo, whether it’s a dress, shoes, hair or anything else. I’ve even demo’ed building assist products before shelling out.
I get upset when I buy something and it’s no transfer, just like in your previous post. And then I find seam errors or misaligned textures that aren’t obvious in the ads. I’d like to be able to IM the owners / sellers and say “Hey, these clothes have mistakes in them, I’d like my money back.” Heck, If I’m in a RL store and I find errors in the clothing I’m looking at, I either don’t buy it or if it’s something fixable, I talk the management into dropping the price.
Your blog is interesting!
Keep up the good work!