I think you should not hyperventilate and calm down. lol No one will be arrested with handcuffs. lol

As I've just posted: The Lab won't go investigate themselves.

"There will be a new category of support ticket added for reporting alleged instances of content theft"

Anyone can squeal on anyone. And they WILL.

I mean, everyone can lie back and relax and say, "They ain't gonna do nothin'."

But it takes one user to file a support ticket on SL about R. Lion or Darkhearts. And that SL assets worth probably over L$1,000,000 are available there for free. Chances are good the whole respective grid will be a goner. And everyone involved will be tracked down by the FBI and, if necessary, international investigators.

One thing I can tell you: The instance that the first OpenSim user is busted for 'botting, all hell will break loose. For one, most of the bigger grids will start scrubbing. But besides, this new support ticket category will be used as a weapon of mass destruction against sims or entire grids by whoever doesn't like them. Freebie store owners will rat on other freebie store owners just to get rid of the competition. Old inter-grid wars will start anew, but this time, there are actually effective weapons with which to destroy both entire grids and their owners once and for all.

See my post above with the linked blog post.

Seriously, I hope it won't take too long until the Max bodies come out. OpenSim needs mesh bodies of its own with useable devkits and hopefully without the "quirks" that give Ruth2 and Roth2 users headaches.

This could mean that the next generation of new and hot freebie stores will be on Russian grids again.

But first of all, even Russians would need to get their hands on new content. If their own 'botters set up 400 burner avatars on SL, only for 'botting purposes, the Lab will find one, delete all 400 and put IP blocks and MAC blocks into effect. 'Botting will be much more difficult and much more inefficient.

Besides, who'll pick their content up? Remember: The Lab is not only after 'botters. It's also after those who "host" 'botted content. Get a cute new 'botted house from some Russki grid, rez it on your sim in OSgrid, and not only you will face the full force of the law if someone rats on you (the Lab will introduce a new "rat on 'botted content" ticket category), but so will Dan and Sarah and Foxx and the other admins because it happened on their "website".

If the Lab goes as far as they've announced, you can essentially destroy an entire huge grid by rezzing Studio Skye mesh beach segments that were 'botted ages ago. If "hosting" includes the asset DB, and someone starts a new grid with the intention of keeping it squeaky clean, you can fuck the whole grid over by walking in with a Catwa head in your inventory and then telling the Lab in a support ticket that the grid has a Catwa head in its asset DB.

We don't know yet how far the Lab will go.

Essentially, content 'botted and offered on a grid hosted someplace that US laws can't reach can only be used on grids hosted someplace that US laws can't reach. Same goes for content 'botted long ago.

will be interesting for AI created mesh too. I am curious how this will end there. Is the AI company the creator or the user of the AI to create content? What is a new creation? Like I saw on Kitely Market someone used a mesh you get as raw mesh everywhere, put a texture in it with AVsitter and then sell it. Is this a new creation or just money making with stuff we do every day without thinking when building stuff but because most people like in Secondlife (or Kitely) think it is magic? When I was in Secondlife I was tech blond and all was magic for me. lol But is this really new creation? If AI is just using the skills you can get also as human and is producing modified stuff you can get somewhere is this new creation? For the layman it will be. It is magic. We will see how companies try to make money with it. I guess it won't work. Like we see now in competition the new chinese LLM for free as open source software that shocked Silicon valley and financial market. Secondlife is anyway stoneage technology and there is nothing to expect for the future. Secondlife has just one advantage to all other VR games. It has tons of already existing content. But also not really anymore since we have all the freebe 3D Websites like sketchfab and now also AI websites like Meshy where you can even easily rig your stuff. No Blender even needed.

License is NOT patent!!! To have PATENT for all these assets LL must pay guglons of dolars to all patent agancies in world! Otherwise they may only scream in corner and to wait someone to make mistake - for example to return asset back to LL and to sale.....OMG!

They'd have to also be the owners authorized agent, which requires a legal relationship between the two parties I doubt that LL in fact claims (regardless of appearance).

Again, if I was going to be frightened by shadows at night they'd take the form of patent claims, that's all I'm saying. It would be trivial for LL to claims patents on a zillion things that opensim implements and by doing so they'd also get rid of the infringing content as well (without claiming a legally dubious relationship between themselves and whatever creators).

Except that SL/LL has a license for everything in their system and the right to defend that license. So they could potentially use a takedown to go after infringing content.

And the reason why there's so much AVsitter furniture is because AVsitter seems to be just about the only way for SL furniture makers to add sit scripts without having to buy them from someone else. If the sit scripts can't be copybotted with the other pieces of the furniture, that doesn't matter because AVsitter can be replaced easily. That's why furniture with AVsitter is so popular among copybotters.

Even if it's a performance hog because it needs two scripts per avatar plus one script for every last extra feature.

If you use Dreamgrid then OSSL ini has all on true automatically. So all Dreamgrid Grids use OSSL. No problem. And most grids in opensim are Dreamgrid of Fred. For PMAC 2.8 I use mostly. Is not frozen level. Always further developed by Tron since 2.0 and is very resource friendly. 4 times less performance of CPU needed than AVsitter. If you put lot of AVsitter on your sim then performance of sim is dropping fast. Not with PMAC. If you have a resource heavy sim like me with Big City Life you have to look what scripts you use so that you can still walk straight on your sim. I use PMAC for all. Avoid AVsitter as much as possible.

The content. This could play out similar to the way it was considered in 2015 already.

One thing is clear: Linden Lab can't go against people who offer illegal freebies on other people's sims because parcel renters have no known valid real-life address. Neither can they take action against sim owners who either offer illegal freebies themselves or allow others to offer illegal freebies on their sims because sim owners don't necessarily have known valid real-life addresses either.

Now, with grids, that's another story. The big grids should all have ways of getting into contact with the admins, those who are officially responsible for the grid.

Back in 2015, there were actually OpenSim users copybotting stuff in SL, importing it directly onto big grids such as OSgrid, Kitely or Metropolis and offering it there.

It would have played out like this: Linden Lab and certain creators would have addressed to Dan Banner of OSgrid, Ilan Tochner of Kitely and Lena Vanilli of Metropolis. They would have told them to remove the sales boxes with copybotted content from these specific creators. Otherwise, cease and desist. In other words, the end of OSgrid, the end of Kitely, the end of Metropolis.

The three admins would then have had to talk to the owners of the sims where that stuff was offered. They would have told them: Get rid of these sales boxes, or we'll delete your sims. Otherwise the authorities will shut down the whole grid.

Well, and if the sim owners haven't put up the sales boxes, if the boxes were installed on a shop parcel by whoever "rented" the shop parcel, the sim owners would have had to tell these users to remove the boxes, otherwise the sim owner would delete the entire shop, terminate the rental and essentially kick the store owner out. Because otherwise, the grid admin would have to delete the whole sim. Because otherwise, the authorities would shut down the whole grid. Because Linden Lab says so.

This, by the way, was the reason why so many store owners cleared their shops entirely back then and replaced everything with Linda Kellie content: That was the only content of which they were absolute certain that it was legal. I guess Selea Core, Hylee Bekkers etc. were too obscure.

Today, however, I'm not even sure if Linden Lab will only go after content from a certain creator in the name of that certain creator, e.g. demand that all Doux hair boxes be removed in the name of Doux or else. And then maybe come back and demand that all Skye sim deco boxes be removed in the name of Studio Skye or else.

I actually can't rule out that they'll go after any and all illegal content all by their own, regardless of who made it in the first place.

That said, I don't know at which level they'll do that. Most likely scenario: They may only go after those whom they can actually catch stealing content in SL and then offering it in OpenSim, at least some of them, although that alone would mean sudden death to quite a number of grids built around young and super-popular freebie sims.

It's a bit more unlikely that they'll go after freebie sims that offer something illegal, anything, even if it was botted in the mid-2010s already. It's even more unlikely that they'll even go after sims with illegal decoration or avatars that wear something illegal.

On the one hand, they can do some research all over the Hypergrid themselves. Philip Rosedale has an OpenSim avatar himself (no kidding, I've seen him at his panel at OSCC24). On the other hand, the more they'd want to go after, the more tedious it'd get, and the less clear it'd be what's legal and what isn't.

Besides, it's about, quote, "egregious content theft", end quote. I don't think they're going to inspect the Clubmaster for illegally imported animations.

Extreme easy: AB 2426 is: "The people of the State of California do enact as follows:".....etc etc etc...
If you live in California then this is your problem.
I not.

My little pet project "Shork Group" ( Shork Island; also in Kitely's freebie market and the ChangeRoom and.. .other places ) is creating full perm Freebie Avatars from the ground up for Opensimualtor. Furries, okay... We commission the parts on Fiver, and it took the others and me a while to figure out the basics and get input and help on some aspects.
At the moment we rely on the same design concepts as used with prim and sculpties back since 2006, just using mesh parts.
Still, there is SO MUCH we have no idea about. There is the Ruth and Roth avatars, which would be legal to use and which supposedly are both BOM and Lara stuff compatible. Didn't fid them anywhere in OpenSimulator so far. There are at least 2 other legal and open Source mesh bodies that should be BOM Compatible... again, didn't find them so far.
I am not sure if I'm too dumb to search, if I do not understand how to search or.. .whatever. In any way, one aspect that makes it hard for me is that there'S no really centralizes repository . On my homepage I am collecting links to have at least some pointer where to look, but it's far from complete - or useful - so far.

the problem is that many developers create with lsl scripting to sell their stuff in Secondlife. They limit themselves. In opensim you can create much better quality with OSSL scripting. And later the limited quality with lsl scripting through AVsitter comes back here in opensim. Instead to create quality with SFposer, PMAC etc in origin in opensim. Of course, you can't sell this in Secondlife, because in Secondlife all the good scripting doesn't work and in opensim you can't earn money. Secondlife had a lot of benefit from developers in opensim that they only scripted in lsl and not in OSSL.

It's that openness I count on.
Whilst the younger generations ( Heck the kids of my schoolmates have outgrown Minecraft by now! ) say that Second Life and thus OpenSimulator are too complicated to use, they basically complain on VRChat and the other pseudo-VR-Worlds about exactly those things lacking, that we expect as the basic functionality in every OpenSimulator and Second Life sim.

When we can bridge the gaps between the top modern technologies such as AI systems for Designs and for NPCs / chatbots, we might entice them to go that little extra step of actually READING the labels on the buttons or just click a symbol and see what happens instead of sitting just sulking in front of the screen and complaining that nothing is happening.