Comments on: Designers Against Theft - Declaring War on Thieves

By: swaffette Firefly

swaffette Firefly — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:19:06 +0000

ty sachi i too am willing to give items free to those who expose my items being sold elsewhere , there is indeed nothing so soul destroying after all the hard work.

By: Concerning Piracy « Fashion Consolidated

Concerning Piracy « Fashion Consolidated — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:11:35 +0000

[…] sachi Vixen has come up with a generous and intriguing way of addressing the problem in her latest post. I quote: My PROMISE to you - If one of my skins is stolen and is offered for a lesser price, please […]

By: Ryker Beck

Ryker Beck — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:10:52 +0000

I commend you on your fight against content theft. Way to make waves and promote awareness.

By: Connie Sec

Connie Sec — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:52:22 +0000

I agree with no ripoff of others works..may I add a plea for skin demo’s to be transferable please. While I am happy with the skin I use , many is the time I’ve seen something I thought would look good on a friend. And imagine the possibilities…skin parties, like tupperware parties. We all ask someone what they think of a demo skin,. It would be fantastic to share demos around when a bunch of us get together. Please pass this idea onto other skin makers.
Thanks,
Connie

By: sachi Vixen

sachi Vixen — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:40:07 +0000

Connie there are a range of transfer skin demo at the store in the designer against theft box. We will see how this goes before deciding if we want to do it on a wider scale.

By: Jini H

Jini H — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:03:08 +0000

I am new to skin making, like brand fresh new i don’t even have a full line of makup yet, My question how would you be able to tell if somone has stolen your skin or anyone elses? From other retail shops that look similar? or do they blatenly steal your displays and everything else?

I don’t for one second doubt that it goes on. Problem being that second lifes clients open source, meaning a criminal programer you could write a client that coule at a click capture the 3 d rendering, texture and geomitry information from any item from a left click pie menu.

Has this been done, i have no clue but in order to see, any given thing in the game that data and imaging has to be sent to the client and as such can be captured by the client. with an open source client, LL opened the doors to such a thing and has no way to prevent such things even if it is a violation of the TOS and laws of countries.

Blizzard in a closed source client can deturmine if you are running exploits or game effecting programs localy effectivly annd efficantly policing against many illegal activities.

LL with open source has no such built in security. I do not doubt for a second the problem is huge, the solutions no small challange either.

Shakes her head. I know making skins is not easy task, 137 layers on my face textures alone and i am not even close to finishing my makups yet. Now i am wondering if i should bother trying or will they just get ripped before i even get started LOL

By: IAm Zabelin

IAm Zabelin — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:20:55 +0000

Way to go Sachi!

These useless (For a lack of a better word) individuals are really destroying SL. I’m still amazed that SL actually tolerates it, and worse is doing NOTHING to prevent it :((

I’ve spend months building a sculpted Porsche Carrera GT in SL (http://zamotors.blogspot.com), just released, and already I have seen certain individuals trying to copy it.

It’s simply disgusting, And I’m pretty sure its what will kill SL … when I say kill, I don’t mean die, I mean have the life taken out of it, as soon as a better platform comes along which looks after creators, SL will be a ghost down.

With the above in mind, this is worth following! Believe me! … http://mwituni.com

By: Aikea Rieko

Aikea Rieko — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:58:13 +0000

I’m glad we’re all trying to take a stand against this theft problem.
There’s a bigger problem however, and none of you are even aware of it.
Your things, your Redgrave skins, your Minnu skins, your Armidi jackets, your sinistyle jackets,your Kin and armidi and tons of other hairs are all over Teen grid and theyre being given out as freebies.There are so many other designers i havent been able to reach yet, like Deviant kitties or ETD, to let them know that it’s FIVE times worse over there.

And it’s getting worse by the day.
If you want to see where all your hard work ends up, Look into Teen Second Life.

I’m starting a petition soon to shut down Teen grid. It’s a barren wasteland filled with your things, Girls selling ETD Hairs without remorse, girls selling Karamia skins and not even caring that it’s stolen, AKEYO Shoes going around fullmods for the taking, along with the Pornstar low tops.

It’s getting worse by the day over there.
I have a folder full of around 150 pictures showing the blatant theft going on over there and if you would like to see some, you can also IM me on SL, i’m usually on hunting for the rightful owners of the stolen things in all my snapshots.

Please help me take a stand against this.

Thanks.

By: Purrts Trumbo

Purrts Trumbo — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:32:50 +0000

That is why I gave up on trying to create for Second Life. I still occasionally do some toy, clothing or animation and give it away. But not with the zeal I used to have. I generally give away my creations, at least they have a better chance of keeping my name on them. Although, I’ve seen stolen copies of my free items. I guess so that someone else can claim they made it. Go figure.

Good luck with the fight, I’ve had enough.