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you don't need unpleasant people on your grid. Unfortunately, most of the users there are devoted to these characters and idolize them as gods.
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I'm wondering... what is the reason for the hatred of copies. Do they suggest that it's okay to keep looking at us as Lego avatars? Many thanks to those who copied from SL and brought Opensim !!!. In addition... I feel that the concept of Freedom is confused with non-payment for the meaning of the word FREE in English. Each grid owner is free to demand that their grid be paid... and each user is free to choose which grid to set on. I personally have an account at AVITRON... and I decided never to use it again. It is my choice not to stay in a grid that is sold as free but you have to pay for each upload. And I thank you again and I will never get tired of doing it to the copiers who brought quality content from SL and share it for free. it's just my opinion without wishing to offend anyone
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Obviously, the strategy of the copybotting mafia works perfectly.
Not only are they trying to drive commercial creators out of the Hypergrid ("Never buy in OpenSim" is the rally cry of that very campaign), but they're also trying to subdue or even chase away who make free and legal content in OpenSim for OpenSim.
Yes, such people exist. Yes, other people than Linda Kellie. Yes, they even make mesh clothes. They even make entire mesh bodies. With full BoM support. They even make things that you'll hardly ever find amongst all that stuff that's being stolen from SL. But you aren't supposed to know that.
So what's so bad about that? It's that the rampant content theft over the last couple of years has killed off a lot of creativity within OpenSim. Why create something yourself in your spare time if the freebie sim next door is being flooded with the newest hottest professionally-crafted premium luxury stuff from SL that's being offered for free, and that's basically what you wanted to make?
Why would someone start creating mesh clothes for female avatars and offer them in their own store when just around the corner someone opens up a freebie store that slaps L$10,000 worth of stolen brand-new clothes from SL onto its walls every week? (Probably only to make clothes which the content thieves consider not sexy/slutty enough.)
It's like you're at a computer fair with a booth promoting GIMP which you help develop, and the booth right next to you offers thousands of pirated copies of the latest version of Photoshop CS for free, complete with hundreds of advertising posters for the booth all over the fair, some of which even insult GIMP, its creators and everyone who uses it.
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Not only are they trying to drive commercial creators out of the Hypergrid ("Never buy in OpenSim" is the rally cry of that very campaign), but they're also trying to subdue or even chase away who make free and legal content in OpenSim for OpenSim.
Yes, such people exist. Yes, other people than Linda Kellie. Yes, they even make mesh clothes. They even make entire mesh bodies. With full BoM support. They even make things that you'll hardly ever find amongst all that stuff that's being stolen from SL. But you aren't supposed to know that.
So what's so bad about that? It's that the rampant content theft over the last couple of years has killed off a lot of creativity within OpenSim. Why create something yourself in your spare time if the freebie sim next door is being flooded with the newest hottest professionally-crafted premium luxury stuff from SL that's being offered for free, and that's basically what you wanted to make?
Why would someone start creating mesh clothes for female avatars and offer them in their own store when just around the corner someone opens up a freebie store that slaps L$10,000 worth of stolen brand-new clothes from SL onto its walls every week? (Probably only to make clothes which the content thieves consider not sexy/slutty enough.)
It's like you're at a computer fair with a booth promoting GIMP which you help develop, and the booth right next to you offers thousands of pirated copies of the latest version of Photoshop CS for free, complete with hundreds of advertising posters for the booth all over the fair, some of which even insult GIMP, its creators and everyone who uses it.
You know why they copybott! No one dares to challenge them. I haven’t seen any creators come fourth and state yes that’s mine unless they don’t care. How many grids can actually say they got a removal request or actually how many of you have a dmca form for your grid. I do I’m also a member of the dmca. It costs thousands of $ to file a suit against anyone that copybotts. There is no rules set in opensim why? Cause it’s open source for everyone, you really have to thank osgrid and a the ones that created the program to allow people to have their own regions or grids. So in all reality it’ll come down to opensim that started all this open source stuff. Good luck to you all in opensim seems like the same crap that goes on in real life.
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No-one challenges the copybotters and content thieves for two reasons.
One, you can't get them all with one DMCA removal request. You can't DMCA Ubit Umarov for content in OpenSim. You have to file a separate one for each grid. And I guess you have to file separate ones again for sims attached to a grid instead of hosted by the grid itself. So we're talking about millions instead of thousands of dollars. Now imagine thousands of grids and hundreds of SL creators DMCAing each one of them.
Two, US law doesn't apply world-wide, and not all grids are hosted in the USA. You try DMCAing a grid hosted in Kazakhstan. Even if it's run by Germans and hosted by a German hosting company with servers in Germany, you'll have a hard time using US law and only US law against it. German law doesn't have the DMCA as such.
Instead of turning OpenSim into a proprietary, commercial, non-free, 100% closed-source, centralised, corporate-owned, US-based "OpenSim Corporation" walled garden so that content creators have only one single DMCA target, it should be upon grid owners to go against illegal content. But for one, that'd be quite tedious because it's hard to find everything. I'm not just talking about boxes in freebie stores, I'm also talking about sim decoration such as trees.
Besides, it's difficult to build 100% legal and still good-looking sims because there's just so much that has never been made in and for OpenSim, and because there's a lot of content whose legality is unclear because it's pretty much uncredited. I've only ever heard of two attempts at making an entire grid free of stolen content, and one seems to have given up.
There have actually been attempts at going against illegal content in OpenSim, but they were all several years ago. In 2015, there were one or a few legal threats against grids which forced freebie shop owners to clear their shops and replace everything inside with old pre-mesh Linda Kellie content because that was all the shop owners knew was guaranteed to be legal (that was before Clutterfly). And Onyx LeShelle of Maitreya sent an open letter to the OpenSim community in which she demanded the removal of content stolen from her and derived from such, including Athena 1 to 3 (that was before Athena 4). AFAIK, only Otto von Otter complied, removed the content mentioned in the letter and made the letter itself available at Klamotto as an explanation why certain things are missing there. Everyone else just shrugged it off because Onyx had good reasons not to take actual legal actions.
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One, you can't get them all with one DMCA removal request. You can't DMCA Ubit Umarov for content in OpenSim. You have to file a separate one for each grid. And I guess you have to file separate ones again for sims attached to a grid instead of hosted by the grid itself. So we're talking about millions instead of thousands of dollars. Now imagine thousands of grids and hundreds of SL creators DMCAing each one of them.
Two, US law doesn't apply world-wide, and not all grids are hosted in the USA. You try DMCAing a grid hosted in Kazakhstan. Even if it's run by Germans and hosted by a German hosting company with servers in Germany, you'll have a hard time using US law and only US law against it. German law doesn't have the DMCA as such.
Instead of turning OpenSim into a proprietary, commercial, non-free, 100% closed-source, centralised, corporate-owned, US-based "OpenSim Corporation" walled garden so that content creators have only one single DMCA target, it should be upon grid owners to go against illegal content. But for one, that'd be quite tedious because it's hard to find everything. I'm not just talking about boxes in freebie stores, I'm also talking about sim decoration such as trees.
Besides, it's difficult to build 100% legal and still good-looking sims because there's just so much that has never been made in and for OpenSim, and because there's a lot of content whose legality is unclear because it's pretty much uncredited. I've only ever heard of two attempts at making an entire grid free of stolen content, and one seems to have given up.
There have actually been attempts at going against illegal content in OpenSim, but they were all several years ago. In 2015, there were one or a few legal threats against grids which forced freebie shop owners to clear their shops and replace everything inside with old pre-mesh Linda Kellie content because that was all the shop owners knew was guaranteed to be legal (that was before Clutterfly). And Onyx LeShelle of Maitreya sent an open letter to the OpenSim community in which she demanded the removal of content stolen from her and derived from such, including Athena 1 to 3 (that was before Athena 4). AFAIK, only Otto von Otter complied, removed the content mentioned in the letter and made the letter itself available at Klamotto as an explanation why certain things are missing there. Everyone else just shrugged it off because Onyx had good reasons not to take actual legal actions.
Is there any benefit to creating a grid/region on which only opensim original creators can have a copy of their store? Maybe call it Opensim Creators region for those who have offered their items for free. I understand that decentralization can have its benefits but it also has its negatives! I guess i am asking why there is no real Centralized region for Opensim creators? Im also speaking of a newer type thing other than places such as Lanis Mall as wonderful as that is to find some treasures.
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Well, that'd require OpenSim to have an official "centre" to start with. What'd that be? OSgrid? A hypothetical new grid started by the main devs so it comes from the same hands as OpenSim itself?
If the OSgrid can be seen as the "centre" of OpenSim, then Wright Plaza would be what you've described, but Wright Plaza is fully booked AFAIK.
The idea itself sounds very good. Social Mouse is still reworking her grid to only contain legal content, and this will include shops, so she may offer shops to creators to have more than just Linda Kellie, Selea Core, Hylee Bekkers or what else I've pointed her at. Zoe Synclair may still have vacancies at Uzuri (https://opensimworld.com/hop/86638) which has a similar goal, but limited to that one sim. None of these wil be any more central than Wright Plaza, though.
Also, if OpenSim creators started to flock into such a place, it'd fill up quickly, so it'd have to be huge. It'd have to be even bigger if the sim owner added shops with items made by long-inactive creators or by creators who allow third parties to run shops with their content (a Ruth&Roth shop, a Selea Core shop, a Hylee Bekkers shop although there is one at Wright Plaza, an Arcadia Asylum/Aley Arai shop etc.)
What do you mean with "newer type"? "Wright Plaza, but the buildings are modern mesh" = "RRD Fashion Exclusives, but with more than one shopkeep"?
Speaking of Wright Plaza, maybe it'd be a good idea to turn it into a varsim to have more shop space. I think it has been around since before varsims were possible. Or maybe build an adjacent Wright Plaza II with the same buildings.
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If the OSgrid can be seen as the "centre" of OpenSim, then Wright Plaza would be what you've described, but Wright Plaza is fully booked AFAIK.
The idea itself sounds very good. Social Mouse is still reworking her grid to only contain legal content, and this will include shops, so she may offer shops to creators to have more than just Linda Kellie, Selea Core, Hylee Bekkers or what else I've pointed her at. Zoe Synclair may still have vacancies at Uzuri (https://opensimworld.com/hop/86638) which has a similar goal, but limited to that one sim. None of these wil be any more central than Wright Plaza, though.
Also, if OpenSim creators started to flock into such a place, it'd fill up quickly, so it'd have to be huge. It'd have to be even bigger if the sim owner added shops with items made by long-inactive creators or by creators who allow third parties to run shops with their content (a Ruth&Roth shop, a Selea Core shop, a Hylee Bekkers shop although there is one at Wright Plaza, an Arcadia Asylum/Aley Arai shop etc.)
What do you mean with "newer type"? "Wright Plaza, but the buildings are modern mesh" = "RRD Fashion Exclusives, but with more than one shopkeep"?
Speaking of Wright Plaza, maybe it'd be a good idea to turn it into a varsim to have more shop space. I think it has been around since before varsims were possible. Or maybe build an adjacent Wright Plaza II with the same buildings.
Either this "Speaking of Wright Plaza, maybe it'd be a good idea to turn it into a varsim to have more shop space. I think it has been around since before varsims were possible. Or maybe build an adjacent Wright Plaza II with the same buildings" OR a dedicated grid for Original Creators to have shops on ( and only shops), It would also double as back up oars maybe. Opensim Creator Community Stores OR OSCCS :)
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Its a misleading advertising...I send an email and I receive this "hi, to activate voice your grid choose subdomain nome.meet-ita.me and
sent €.10,00 month to chnoagar@gmail.com"
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hi, to activate voice your grid choose subdomain nome.meet-ita.me and
sent €.10,00 month to chnoagar@gmail.com
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sent €.10,00 month to chnoagar@gmail.com
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hi, to activate voice your grid choose subdomain nome.meet-ita.me and
sent €.10,00 month to chnoagar@gmail.com
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sent €.10,00 month to chnoagar@gmail.com