However, there are a few situations that might make this possible: This includes anything in your vendors or dropboxes. In Second Life, it's normally not possible for a bot to steal items which are in the contents of another object. These are useless and don't accomplish anything, other than annoying your legitimate customers. However, these accounts are often stolen accounts or throwaway alts, so the person showing as 'creator' is often either a victim of a hack (and thus innocent), or is irrelevant. If it's clothing, an animation, a texture, sound, or mesh, this will usually show the name of the thief as creator. Any full perm prim created by any avatar in Second Life can be used to re-build the object, so you often see copybotted stuff still showing the genuine creator, or indeed a Linden.

If it's an object built with prims, it could be anyone. It will only annoy your legitimate customers. Setting your items to no-mod does not affect CopyBots in any way. Any viewer can identify itself as a particular release, and there's no way for LL to know what the viewer really is.Ī common misconception. See Object Contents What about the Third Party Viewer policy? Once the content is downloaded to the viewer, a malicious viewer can easily export this content, and the content can be re-uploaded.Ĭan they steal stuff from my vendors / dropboxes? Such software is easy to get hold of, and is undetectable by Linden Lab.Īlmost all content in Second Life has to be downloaded to the viewer in order for you to enjoy it. 1.6 I use a 'copybot protection' scriptĪ CopyBot is any Second Life client which has the ability to export items without any permissions checks.1.3 What about the Third Party Viewer policy?.1.2 Can they steal stuff from my vendors / dropboxes?.

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