First game lawsuit over Second Life
The virtual reality is slowly taking over our real lifes. The first lawsuit between two Second Life users has been filed in New York, over the issue of someone stealing virtual items. It’s the case of Eros v. Simon. Linda Eros claims that Thomas Simon stole specific computer code to copy products she created and sells in the virtual Second Life world. It is not as absurd as it may seem at first. In Second Life, some people literally earn a living by creating items like avatar clothing and accessories and selling them in their own shops. These items are paid for with real money, as in US dollars.
Eros apparently specializes in creating adult-themed items. According to her lawsuit, her virtual products “built a reputation within Second Life for performance, quality and value, and … are among the best selling adult-themed virtual objects within Second Life.” The suit alleges that Simon stole Eros’s designs and made knockoff products, causing her sales to fall. It is a tricky gray area because the wording in US fair trade laws say nothing about cases in which no physical product or service is provided. The facts of the case are also in question. According to Simon, Eros gained unauthorized access to his virtual house to gain “evidence”, the equivalent of breaking and entering to take evidence from someone’s property. That evidence would not be admissible in court, but there is a question about the degree of illegality in trespassing on someone’s virtual estate. Those people have obviously forgotten about their First Life…
Source: TG Daily
Comments(40)
LOL!!!!
After this, only the end of the world…
u got to be crazy to “play” this, but I must admit, it’s a nice way to earn cash, rofl
easiest way to solve the problem —> there should be virtual court to settle the dispute,^^
…and I could be virtual president end collect taxes,
hmm maybe I should form up virtual army and Invade Iraq again, to get twice more oli and sell it on virtual stock marke, but probably virtual UN would oppose that :-/
CRAZY oO
sorry for spelling mistakes, but there is no edit mode :-/
This game is sooo bad… It is like society gone wrong…
From what I read it’s not supposed to be a “game” as such. Apparently companies like IBM actually use this virtual world to hold meetings in virtual HQ’s. As far as the item buying goes, I guess it’s like all of these Korean MMORPG’s where you pay real money for some epic sword.
They both deserve headshot…
@di, lol!
I think that this is actually a test ground for future virtual markets… it’s not like that isn’t going to happen.
Anyway, this shows one out of many scenarios from “First Life” that can happen as well in a virtual reality.
If we would have been at the point of actually using such a service, having a model build by our measurements and using it to buy virtual clothes… then those clothes would get at out doors by a delivery service, being the exact items like represented in the VR… then, wouldn’t that be great? But how great would it be for the ppl that invested in such a virtual market? Not so…
How do i kick their virtual asses ?
oh no! Soon the world is gonna be like Matrix.
long live second life and its cool inhabitants, death to the losers in the real world
^ @ 11
There is no Second life without the First Life. n00b.
In reality, the objects are still physical. After all where are they stored… the spititual world?
nerds….
Drat! I’ve already been subpoenaed to testify in front of a jury why I preferred to use the Simon ‘Vibrating ribbed loveballs with extra pixel-arousing power boost feature’ over the Eros one……
What am I to do??? My name will be in the SL Herald, all my friends will hear about it, my SL family will disown me, I’ll be a laughing stock!!!
:/
Hmmmmmm… Tis sounds like a modern day cat burglar. How lame are you when you are forced to steal some woman’s virtual panties. Do you think he sniffed his computer screen as he held her panties in victory!!
I think that while she was broke into his virtual house she should have taken a virtual dump on his bed.
ROTFL SL!
there are many people who takes this game too seriously and should consider to go outside
LOL… I guarantee you that she sold giant penises or giant dildos. Those are the best selling ‘adult-themed’ items in Second Life.
LGx
October 30th, 2007 | 12:27
They both deserve headshot…
LOL!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6708417.stm
-or you can just grab the torrent-
http://www.newtorrents.info/torrent/21892/The.Money.Programme.Virtual.World.Real.Millions.WS.PDTV.XviD-REMAX.html
It was bound to happen eventually.
Dwight schrute played this last The office episode? haha, that was hilarious, i tried this, and i really don’t get the big deal, stupid advertisements everywhere and butt ugly characters that move like robots, but really what is the world coming too `? -.-
My Dwight avatar is exactly the same as me.. except he can fly..
The laws must follow where real money goes.
If your Second Life is better than your first, you should just killl yourself…
Like Jim says: yes, there are losers in second life.
This game is so f@$#ing lame anyone who plays it is lower than dogsh!t on the shoe of society.
ROFLMMFAO!!!
Get a real fkn life people. This story could have been a skit on MADTV or SNL a few years ago….I can almost picture it.
So in this case will evidence tampering be classed as hacking?
There should be computers in Second Life where you can log on and play a Third Life. You know it’s realistic when you’re playing an MMO, in another MMO!
Just want to say – Martin, your posts are the best!
You make me hard, keep it up
The graphics in this game just COMPLETELY wreck the though that it is a virtual life.
SERIOUSLY that are pathetic.
Virtual worlds are too early for such crap like Second Life.
In about 10 years virtual worlds will be alot more accepted and used, but I am hoping we won’t just be sitting in a chair with a mouse and keyboard or controller. I’m thinking more put a head mask on/sleep in a capsule and plug your brain into the game sorta play. Who would not love to literally take the form of their fantasy avatar in a MMOG? Slaying mobs but as if your body was in the game.
Now THAT is a second life if any, not this piece of sh!t game HAHA.
what an unbelievable waste of my tax dollars, even worse than Iraq, even worse than the war on terror, even “worser” still than the war on drugs.
Don’t worry Christy Cosmos….Just deny everything…I can’t believe you would even know what a Simon ‘Vibrating ribbed loveballs with extra pixel-arousing power boost feature’ was…even use one…..:P lol!!
You was wiv me ok….I wont let you get stitched up like a kipper…you did nuffink owriiiight!!
Ok this has just proved to me even more that there are too many sad ppl in the world with too much money to waste online for things that will never exist in there real life, god if they want to play such a game and waste money go out and buy the sims same bloody thing with a one off payment for the game only.
we need to get out more and stop this crap soul destroying stuff
GET A LIFE
i hate it when people insinuate that the USA is in Iraq for oil. If we were there for oil, I wouldn’t be paying 3.50 USD per gallon of fuel now would I? u moron diana. Quite frankly, I was there in 91-92, and I STILL don’t know why we’re there. But I do know it damn sure isn’t for their oil.
She didn’t have a virtual search warrant to search for virtual dildoes?
And where do you get one? The virtual judge so…….
Take this sad excuse for a life to the virtual judicial system and sort it out!!!! OMG what is this world coming to
@jacksmack OMG you really cant believe the war in iraq was for anything else can you?
it wasn’t about you paying less for oil it was about you having a reason to pay more!!!! how else will all those fat bastards get fatter?
@ maria
So you what you are telling me is that oil is the ONLY reason we are over there? well I can say that when I was there I never heard anything about oil except the fact that all the wells were burning….
Maybe we should have let Saddam alone? is that what you’re saying?
Im not trying to justify why we are there, but to think it is just about oil is ridiculous. The US has enough oil in its reserves to get by for 10 years without depending on any middle-eastern country. I know the Iraquis as a people, and let me tell you, the people there are wonderful and they were
mostly glad that we were there, from the ones that i spoke with. So, if the Iraqui people don’t have a problem, why does everyone else? “USA is just a bunch of war-mongers” I get so tired of hearing a bunch of net-kiddies spout that sh!t when most of them were babys in 1991 and have no clue as to what is going on. USA isn’t evil. GEORGE BUSH is.
this game is cool. my avatar has a guitar strapped on his back and is a sports writer in Philadelphia.