On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Brandon Husbands <[email protected]> wrote: > What do you all think should there not be legal recourse for people hacking > say in game items that have a out of work connection? Like systems that have > databases where they exploit it through sl? Can / will linden labs care > enough to take any action? Or do you think you would need to go out of world > and sue either them or ll / file for full disclosure? I ask this cause > people constantly try to exploit combat systems. I am wondering what > recourse there is for said events. > > Whats your thoughts as developers?
If I develop software for Windows, and Microsoft came to my legal defense if someone was found hacking, I would be freaked out. That feels like Microsoft is laying some claim to my product. Besides, Microsoft has no idea how I built my system. Maybe I'm an idiot and made it extremely insecure. I doubt they'd enjoy representing that in court. It's well known that Microsoft has bounties on worm and virus creators. But that's a first-party thing. Any third party thing is the responsibility of the third party. Having said that. That are a lot of clueless parties as to what the law is and says. Especially since we're dealing with something new and unusual that thrusts people into an intellectual property situation with no knowledge of how the laws work. Which is why I made this Jira (already resolved, though Under Advisement) which asks for a Linden lawyer to have office hours. http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-3263 I'm all for educating people. But I'm strongly against bailing them out. Consequences exist to teach people lessons. Remove the consequences, and no education happens. -Stickman _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
