SL Residents Protest Registration Changes
Posted Friday, June 23rd, 2006, at 7:24 pm Eastern by Mark Wallace
SL machinima-maker Pierce Portocarrero caught some footage of a protest in the virtual world of Second Life today, held to coincide with the world’s third birthday. The protest was being held to voice some residents’ dissatisfaction with the new registration requirements (or lack thereof) we mentioned earlier today. I haven’t heard the narration on this yet, as I’m still at the Supernova conference, but the footage is engaging, and gives a good idea of what it’s like when a bunch of SL avatars get together for a protest — which is not an unusual thing in itself.
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kickin video. Thanks for the link.
SL residents protest new reg policies - film at 11…
Not a great showing for Second Life on their 3rd anniversary today — what with Snapzilla being closed, “database problems” causing people to not be able to log-in or getting knocked off repeatedly, and in-world protestors complaining about the new…
[…] The privacy concerns Prokofy raises risk being lost amidst the resident protests regarding the changes to the SL registration process (described conceptually here by Linden’s VP Community/Support, Robin Harper) and policy regarding collection of unique user hardware identification information (described technically here by lead libSecondLife developer John Hurliman). Without speaking directly to the open registration issue, I will say this: I spent a lot of time in world as Commerce Leader this week after Linden changed the format of their transaction history, upon which SLBoutique bases its deposits, and while my interactions with most SLB users were congenial (after an explanation, most even appreciated the underlying nature of the problem), those who had been born within the past week tended to be less understanding. Four such individuals followed Commerce Leader around in world, waving scripted wands that sent me flying across sims trapped in black boxes or tornados. Whether this was done as “punishment” for a delay in posting L$ deposits or just for kicks could be up for debate, if more than one of them had actually registered on SLB… […]
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