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Yippee for CopyBot! If you exclude the plagarism and commercial abuse – mostly virtual but real-world from selling the linden-dollars also. I only like the Emule-equivilent benefits of it. Having anything you want for free and having no artificial-scarcity barriers on you bragging and spreading your own creations.

Copybot seemed cool. The official version was crippled to prevent abuse. The headline making was obviously done by source-modded versions. The headlines are probably being created because people are using it to plagiarize and re-sell non-free virtual items at deep undercutting prices (Piracy-4-money). I’ll look on Emule. Hopefully I’ll remember. The mods are probably chaotic and I would probably need friends in the second life world to get a version that copies anything. I would prefer the original creator to be left intact (for attribution) and that I only get my free copy and to have the ability to give out free copies and people to be able to get free copies from me (Piracy-4-Free with no plagiarism). But I probably won’t even get to messing with CopyBot myself as Second Life needs slow-broadband and I only have semi-broadband (144kbps up/down cellphone modem) and I saturate that with Emule traffic.

Looks like LibSecondLife is going to keep open source, but make it a lot less convenient to get the source, probably CVS-only with login required. They might as well close the source if they are *that* paranoid. It is still legal (at least for GPL, CC-by-sa, DSL) to copy the source code as an intact archive to my heart’s content if I go through the hassle of downloading source files one by one. I haven’t actually tried to bulk-download a CVS with GetRight browser, possibly with a regex-in-TextPad manipulated intermediate local html file, which is how I bulk-rip pictures from MLS, wackywet, and swimmingfullyclothed. If I do get my hands on CopyBot (the uncrippled mutant versions) preferred) I’ll share it up on Emule, along with it’s source if I can get a complete archive.

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