Permission Bugs
Recently I’ve been having a lot of issues with permission bugs. As you know, all my poses are supposed to be set as mod/copy/no tran. A couple of days ago I recieved an IM saying that one of my vendors was sending a pose that was no mod/copy/tran. I first checked the item in my inventory to find it had the correct permissions. Then I checked the pack box that was correct. Then I checked the vendor and sure enough, it was set wrong. How in the hell could that be? Before I set out a single thing, I tripple check the permissions then relog to check again. I then set up the packs and again check the permissions. Finally, I throw them into the vendors.
Another problem I’ve had recently is reverting to the default permissions of no mod/no copy/tran when putting into any object or reloging. That’s the reason why I check them so often. Every single time I release something, the permission always change at one stage.
This is fucking absurd. We are supposed to have IP rights on all of the content that we work so hard to create. LL have a DMCA policy, but I have yet to hear anything actually happen with it. I’ve seen in the past that it doesn’t cover freebies that people resell. It also doesn’t cover the items that became freebies due to the permission bug a couple of years ago. According to LL, the only recourse we have is to file the complicated DMCA report, wait for them to check up on it, and hope they get the theives to stop. And yet they don’t do anything about it when the copy and transfer boxes are checked whether that was intentional, from a bug, an exploit, or even lag.
Lucky for me that I have yet to see or hear about someone reselling my work. Well that is execept for the people who have been copying my poses, but those are lower quality replicas. But that’s really not the same.
I’m not sure if you heard or not, but Stroker filed a lawsuit this week. From what I’ve gathered, someone got their hands on a full perm sexgen bed and is extremly undercutting Stroker with his own product, by L$8,000. The articles I’ve read are unclear if its a replica or stollen work but Stroker confirmed on the bile of the SC forums that it’s a full perm copy recieved by an exploit or permission bug. He also says that he submitted two DMCA reports but “Linden Lab could not substantiate that these articles were being sold inworld.” This will be an interesting thing to watch.
I found someone had already submitted this to the Jira here. Please go and vote.
