LuckyStrike @LuckyStrike

you don't need unpleasant people on your grid. Unfortunately, most of the users there are devoted to these characters and idolize them as gods.

Obviously, the strategy of the copybotting mafia works perfectly.

Not only are they trying to drive commercial creators out of the Hypergrid ("Never buy in OpenSim" is the rally cry of that very campaign), but they're also trying to subdue or even chase away who make free and legal content in OpenSim for OpenSim.

Yes, such people exist. Yes, other people than Linda Kellie. Yes, they even make mesh clothes. They even make entire mesh bodies. With full BoM support. They even make things that you'll hardly ever find amongst all that stuff that's being stolen from SL. But you aren't supposed to know that.

So what's so bad about that? It's that the rampant content theft over the last couple of years has killed off a lot of creativity within OpenSim. Why create something yourself in your spare time if the freebie sim next door is being flooded with the newest hottest professionally-crafted premium luxury stuff from SL that's being offered for free, and that's basically what you wanted to make?

Why would someone start creating mesh clothes for female avatars and offer them in their own store when just around the corner someone opens up a freebie store that slaps L$10,000 worth of stolen brand-new clothes from SL onto its walls every week? (Probably only to make clothes which the content thieves consider not sexy/slutty enough.)

It's like you're at a computer fair with a booth promoting GIMP which you help develop, and the booth right next to you offers thousands of pirated copies of the latest version of Photoshop CS for free, complete with hundreds of advertising posters for the booth all over the fair, some of which even insult GIMP, its creators and everyone who uses it.