This has just happened in the last two days. What should I do?

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“SaltOf Ersetu Says:

December 7th, 2006 at 6:52 AM PST

What exactly was the crime committed? Maybe SL needs its own little Patriot Act? Remember, this is a worldwide network and really, other than the symptoms of grief, no crime was committed.

Now, when one of these smart-asses actually hacks into LLabs and downs or otherwise causes some tangiable disruption, I believe a trespass or crime has been comitted.”
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I disagree with that. Since SL is created, supported, and used by its members, the “symptoms of grief” is surely disruption of a private network. It is disruptive to Linden Labs business model, and it is disruptive and destructive to its paying members.

It is my opinion that situations such as this should be taken very seriously, and prosecuted just as any business entity would prosecute a vandal, or a thief to the fullest extent of the law.

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you are ridiculous lol, bob: they have our addresses so they don’t need us PLUS, its not worth 50K dollars what are you thinking this is a small virtual attack, not a murder. and Marcy, you don’t pay for live help…

Logging off to check the blog isn’t something I would have thought of doing. Fortunately, several groups I belong to sent out Group IMs.

I know what the MUTE button is on the Chat History, but have no idea where it might be on a “blue dialog” or even what that is. I remember at least 20 blue cards coming onto the upper right corner of my computer screen with people’s names as gift-giver, but those blue cards had only Accept or Decline. If Mute was there, I didn’t notice it.

I was one of those who submitted an Abuse Report and included the names of the people shown on the ornaments as Owner as well as the names of those on the blue “gift-giver” information cards.

When I filled in the Abuse Report, it wouldn’t allow me to simply type in the names of the Owners listed on the ornaments. It offered only my entire Friends List. At first it refused to Submit my report. Then I tried clicking in different places and the report was submitted but had the name of someone on my Friends List…which was not the true name.

Fortunately, I’d been writing down the names of the Owners listed on the ornament objects and had included them in my Abuse Report.

Later I wrote to Live Help (I think) to restate emphatically that the person the Abuse Report listed as the Abuser definitely was NOT the Abuser.

Someone suggested putting the names of the Owners of the ornaments on the BAN list for my property. Questions: 1. Will that also ban objects belonging to those people? 2. Could the names on the ornaments have been invalid? Could someone else have put the names on them?

Sorry this was such a long post. My technology background is minimal.

If this is true, can anybody explain to me please, why SL allows this kind of fast, limitless replication in the first place?

To shut down replication, you’d have to shut down the ability of

1)objects to give/receive items.

2)objects to rez other objects.

You’d have to disable one or another of these functions. So much user generated content depends on one of these abilities that a good chunk of SL’s content would be rendered inoperable.

I do a lot of work with Alife. Indeed, that was my principle draw to this platform, and I use self replication all the time. I’d probably stay around if one or another of these functions was borked, but I’d be spending a lot less time here.