The practice of illegally copying or cloning objects in Second Life, as least for me, is a very big issue that should be taken seriously but there are merchants and creators specially in SLExchange who does not believe or do they care about this issue. In one thread, a creator and a merchant posted her case on content theft. She found one of her creations copied prim-per-prim and texture-per-texture and that can only be done by using a third party program. Fortunately, a DMCA complaint was filed with Linden Labs and it looked like the original creator won but what pissed me off is the fact that many argued that it isn’t possible and that CopyBot no longer exist.
An object owned by Korena Starbrook was copied and was being distributed for FREE! :(
Okay, there might not be anymore CopyBot programs out there but you don’t need a program named CopyBot to copy objects in Second Life. All you need is LibSecondLife’s Test Client and you can get that by downloading and installing LibSecondLife. LibSecondLife is the heart of almost all text based Second Life viewers out there which are commonly known as SL Bots.
Now, most of these bots omitted the ability to copy objects but not the Test Client. The Test Client has it all. With it, you can copy textures and objects regardless of permission. The only thing it can’t copy are scripts and animations. So, if you are planning to start a Second Life Business then I suggest you start with scripting and animation specially if you are paranoid about content theft. [READ MORE]
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