Second Life BOMBSHELL: makers admit users don’t really own virtual property
Following a recent court ruling that their ToS is a contract of adhesion, Second Life’s creator Linden Lab has now been forced to publicly admit that, despite website and public relations claims over the years clearly stating otherwise, users don’t really own the virtual property they acquire within Second Life. Now says ownership merely “metaphor”.
Anthony Nystrom says:
Ah hello… You can’t own something that doesn’t exist! Virtual is just that virtual. Until we actually live our lives (the real ones) in the virtual world via physiological conduits will anything virtual be tangible. This should come as no surprise to anyone with half a brain. And the Second life issue refers to property or that of virtual land property. Not property like copyright. The site, second life is virtual; copyright, trademark, patent, and intellectual property isn’t virtual it has application in our tangible, physical world. Second life has no application here other than for entertainment.
