Disgustingly enough, Siyu Suen has now found herself the latest victim of copybot.
The observant Hirokii Hyun sent me a notecard this evening, which was a notification that my Desperado Hat and Guy Fawkes mask had both been copybotted. The worst part: that they were distributed with full permissions in a group with over eight hundred members. This left me shaking, upset, and panicked.
Luckily, Siyu knew what to do and acted immediately. She’s a paid Second Life account, so she contacted concergie, AR’d the guy, found the item ID’s and asked that they be taken down, and deleted from the group notices. She also quickly filed a DMCA.
I sent a notice requesting my friends, my loyal customers, my Illusionists and members of Masqueraderie to send their own abuse reports on the thief and his alt. All of a sudden a rush of IM’s in the group channel were asking for details, expressing their support and their outrage at the thief. In less than a half hour, his name was removed from search. Less than five minutes after that, as the group turned their AR’s against his copybot alt, that name disappeared too.
I just want to say I have never seen that quick a response from the Lindens. I’ve seen swarms of fashionistas descend like a plague of righteous AR’ing locusts, and never seen a response like that. Abuse reports can still take a day or two, or at least a few hours(!) to be processed, even when filed en masse by angry shopping addicts. I’ve heard that even then, sometimes the culprits are only suspended, despite clear copybot abuse. I have simply never seen anything like that happen, which means you guys are clearly Extra Special Grade A Awesomesauce made from freshly grown organic Awesome. Just knowing that all of you showed such overwhelming support that the Lindens had to panic and remove his names just to stem the unending tide of reports made me feel so protected, grateful, and much more likely to sleep well tonight.
In thanks, Siyu made a special mask… a wolf mask! You can view more of her entry and see the mask by clicking here: http://masklady.blogspot.com/2008/07/copybot-drama.html
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