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I have had content removed from my inventory. Unlike the real world, LL does not treat mere possession of stolen goods as a crime. At the worst, should you have bought the content, you would suffer the loss of the linden dollars you spent. Included on this page are tips for avoiding stolen content.īeyond that the answers you will get here from us will be based in general on our experiences, knowledge, understanding & interpretation of the TOS and CS.Įssentially speaking, you will not get in trouble for having stolen content in your inventory. Beyond that the odds of A Linden answering here are about zero. If you want 'official' answers, I will suggest this page on the SL Wiki. I honestly don't see any cause for concern UNLESS you know an item was botted, in which case the proper action is to contact the original creator (how would you know it was botted if you had not seen the original) and at that point it is the creator's responsibility to proceed with a DMCA.or not. As a result, anyone who had the animations that were botted from this creator in any furnishings.not purchased from him.were 'broken' by LL. That went through a fairly lengthy legal process. There have been a few high profile cases of copybotting (thinking here of the original creator of a certain sex bed). I have never heard of a person who was not the copybotter but unknowingly had copybotted items in inventory being banned. I have seen posts of items *poofing* from people's inventories that they later found out, usually via the forums, that were botted items. If a creator files a successful DMCA, then the copybotted items are removed from the copybotter's inventory (iirc) as well as anyplace they are trying to sell them in world and on the MP. I've heard of other creators who are aware of their item/s have been botted but for whatever reason don't want to go through the DMCA process. Sometimes creators have no idea their items have been copybotted, thus don't fill out a DMCA. take down/out all the copybotted items from the copybotter). The first thing that has to happen is the original creator of an item that is copybotted files a DMCA which is a 'take down' (ie. I have not had this happen personally, but over the years I have read threads about copybots and copybotted items.

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