DMCA Notice on Second Life

With such a complex computer game or, better said, virtual world as Second Life and with the presence of over twenty million users worldwide, it is very possible that something will go wrong at some point. Second Life hasn’t been quite classified as a computer game since it has no definitive objective, so everyone refers to it as a virtual world. And in this virtual world the little things the players bump into become big deals sometimes.

Taking the case of Alexand Vantelli, we can see how molehills turn into mountains from a simple computer generated shoe. Alexand Vantelli is one resident of the grid who has been found with a box with shoes that appear to not belong to him. As the virtual world permits, anyone can create their own objects within the grid and resident interactions are made oftentimes through trade. This means that simple objects make the connection between people.

Alexand Vantelli was discovered to be in possession of some shoes that apparently did not belong to him. When trading or buying shoes in the grid, the names of the designers on these objects will not appear anymore; however, in Vantelli’s case, the prim box contained a few shoes still contained the original creator names. This points to the fact that the permissions for these object have not passed onto Alexand.

In the virtual grid of Second Life this has been viewed as a crime, since Vantelli has clearly stolen these shoes, probably using copy bots (or so the plaintiffs suspect). The shoe designers from Second Life who had their creations stolen by Vantelli have made an official accusation with the Digital Millenium Act (DMCA).

Gossip has spread quickly in the grid about the virtual crime and many are still speculating about what actually happened. Until the resolve of this case, Vantelli will have a DMCA action filed against him.

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