Readers with good memories will recall that about three months ago, VB ran a short piece on an odd item from the international desk. China planned to impose a new law which would require that online computer games generate half-points after three hours of play, and zero points after five hours. Games that did not [...]
Several sites are covering a claim on the website Your2ndPlace.com that the World Stock Exchange in Second Life was hacked, and approximately $L3.2m (US$12,000) was taken. Reuters has the most comprehensive story. [Update: Robert Bloomfield over at Metaversed has a more recently updated story up that discusses some of the fallout currently circulating.] [Update: Bloomfield has [...]
The Second Life blogosphere’s always-humming soft-serve hate machine recently extruded a double cone’s worth of surprised indignation in reaction to the news that “Virtual Worlds PPV,” a company owned by Timothy Allen (Second Life’s ‘FlipperPA Peregrine’) and attorney Frank Taney, had filed a patent application on an aspect of in-world pay-per-view technology. As it turns [...]
Posted in Civil Procedure, Content Creators, Copyright Law, Eros, Eros v. John Doe, Lawsuits, Linden Lab, Providers, Second Life, Virtual Law, Virtual Worlds & Games on July 21st, 2007 4 Comments »
As VB predicted two weeks ago, Reuters is now reporting that the “John Doe” in the Eros litigation left a digital trail that ties his real-life identity to his Second Life avatar, and PayPal is going to provide his name in response to Eros’ subpoena. He’s not “some kind of n00b” or anything, it’s just [...]
