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Kurt Ludd @ 01-5-09 10:51
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Grid Diva @ 01-4-09 13:59
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Grid Diva @ 12-31-08 18:20
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| Promotion Updates |
| Posted by Grid Diva - 01-4-09 13:59 - 0 comments |
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Hey All -- In preparations for our EXCHANGE we will be not be offering CCIP after January 15th. Also, our PROMOTION for OpenSpace Sims will end on the same day.
New pricing, for OS sims will be announced on January 15th.
FYI - All purchased OS under the promotion will maintain their monthly tier amounts of $25 aka Grandfathered Tier
For the lifetime of the region (Lifetime means that your sim is not canceled or delinquent in any way).....
Did ya notice that born dates were working on Profiles? Small bit of news but nice to see 
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| To The Community Of Legend City |
| Posted by Grid Diva - 12-31-08 18:20 - 0 comments |
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As a number of people have commented on recent events, I wanted to take some time to calm down from the initial shock of it all and rationally convey my thoughts to you today about it so that we move forward into the New Year with a clear understanding. I would like to state first, that the staff of Legend City and myself, which many of you can attest, work in upwards of twenty hour days to customize and assist in stabilizing a new and what we feel, is an exciting Alpha software that will enhance any users experience in a virtual world such as ours. We do not set forward on this pioneering journey to steal content but to provide an alternative user environment with the spirit of friendship, community and creativity. We have not now nor ever stolen content from ANY user in our community and do uphold all legal statues for IP. There have not been any free offers or ‘deals’ made in exchange for content being provided (via upload or created in world) on the matrix of Legend City Online nor will there ever be in the foreseeable future.
I believe it is disingenuous to focus on gossip as a first or prior step, empirically or theoretically, to address something as serious as Content or IP Theft. What is even further a crime (IMHO) is having someone else correct the rumored ‘wrong’ through redistributive justice (i.e. blogs, forums).
The displacement to substitute hearsay with “truth” works as a strategy to perpetuate the injustices that have ruined the lives of some I’ve witnessed over the years in Second Life (i.e. through witch hunts, watchdogs and groupies that incite doubt and worry). It creates such an internal disunity in virtual worlds that it can inevitably evolve through legal instruments of the judicial system as it has sadly done in this case.
For some closure I would like to humbly apologize to the community of Legend City Online for my hurried act, for what I considered, to be a sufficient way to alleviate the injury to my integrity and for the shaking of any faith or inconvenience you might have felt due to the uncertainty of rumored and slanderous statements published by any blogger or forum.
We have always followed and maintained an active DMCA 512 or Take Down Protocol for truly “Stolen” content contrary to any blog or forum posting that states otherwise. We are proactively looking for other alternatives from outside vendors to further our efforts as continued evidence of this stance in the future.
Per recent events, we will not allow false statements to be perpetuated that negatively impact upon Legend City’s reputation and goodwill and have retained counsel.
The road to justice and the clearance of my name and the reputation of Legend City will be pursued at this time in hopes of silencing the vociferous and unwarranted judgments passed upon me based solely on conjecture.
Lastly, To my administration and those of you that stood firmly as a supporter of me or Legend City Online, my gratitude for your acceptance of me has no bounds. I look forward to moving ahead with our commitment to Community, Freedom, and Creativity and I sincerely wish you and your RL and VL families and friends a productive New Year!
LaLa Legend
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| Updates with Log Ins |
| Posted by Grid Diva - 12-31-08 13:46 - 0 comments |
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Hey Everyone
Due to an issue we were alerted to from your community member "Sparkz Munro" we have quickly moved to resolve, what we think, are some of the reasons behind failed LogIns of recent date.
At this time, if you are getting a "Failure to Authenticate" please contact LIVE CHAT and we will reset your password for you - HOWEVER, if you have not added an email address to your account that is VALID or Linked your account to your SL account we will not be able to help you - please keep this in mind before you contact LiveChat.
Thank You so much for your patience and a great big HUG to Sparkz for catching the problem!
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| Public Announcement! |
| Posted by Grid Diva - 12-28-08 20:44 - 0 comments |
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Hello All
I would like to address a recently "made public" insinuation that I (myself) or Legend City Online, LLC is in any way "stealing" anyone's content for ourselves. As I take IP Theft quite seriously and have been quite pro-active on my stance and protocol for DMCA, I will post once again our protocol for DMCA 512 aka DMCA Take Down Procedures.
http://www.gamerssoul.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=83
With that being stated, I am going to address our billing procedures. Like LL or any other Online Service Provider that offers you a virtual environment, if you dont pay, your service is retracted or suspended until you do - Period.
When your account is suspended for deliquency or non pay, you will have no access to your account. Any content or land that your avatar maintains is still the respected content of "that" avatar and will remain, in world, for a minimum of 30 days to allow for the payment of the arrears to be made.
I do have the right to have payment for services rendered like any other company would including Second Life. I furthermore have the right to suspend NON PAYING accounts when they are well overdue (just like second life does).
I have pointed out in several areas that this is a KNOWN and COMMON practice and here is the proof that LL will shut your account off 7 [SEVEN] days after you are required to pay and have not. You will find that it furthermore will allow the remaining of your INWORLD content for an additional 30 [THIRTY] days while your account will continue to go into an arrears and then be auctioned and/or sold off if you still do not make good on your balance due:
https://support.secondlife.com/ics/support/...questionID=5619
First....With whatever your thoughts are about Legend City, Second Life, or virtual worlds all together - They dont run on air - they operate on real servers, that have real bandwidth hosting, with real bills. If regions are not being paid for by their owners and are still being serviced, then they are being paid for by the company in which a balance will be due.
Second...It does not behoove myself nor Legend City Online to ban ANY content creator, no matter who they are. As preferential treatment may have been offered in the beginning to "some" as a courtesy, that by no means implies FREE SERVICE forever! But the fact remains, that if payments should be made then the good faith of that relationship should be maintained.
Third...To address a few items about why online service providers own full and non-exclusive rights to any content brought on to their grid or environment. I addressed this once in our own forum and the fact remains the same.
Here is that link: http://www.gamerssoul.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8
The following is the reflection of that very SAME information on Linden Labs Terms of Service: It is from #3 subtopic 2
- *Linden Lab Terms of Service (3.2) You also understand and agree that by submitting your Content to any area of the Service, you automatically grant (or you warrant that the owner of such Content has expressly granted) to Linden Lab and to all other users of the Service a non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid-up, transferable, irrevocable, royalty-free and perpetual License, under any and all patent rights you may have or obtain with respect to your Content, to use your Content for all purposes within the Service. You further agree that you will not make any claims against Linden Lab or against other users of the Service based on any allegations that any activities by either of the foregoing within the Service infringe your (or anyone else's) patent rights.
Ok, at what point does all of this become confusing? When someone decided because they could not pay their tier or keep their word, they would design a smear campaign and then sit back (silently) and watch the hunt begin.
I feel sorry that instead of just coming to some "terms of payment" that I was faced with no other option than to suspend the account. I did this weeks after I was told to:
1. "Freeze the account if I needed to"
2. Wanted me to know she knew she owed by stating "I logged in spexcifically to *tell* you I was making arrangements to pay you so y9ou wouldnt be guyessing."
3. Stated that payment would be made within the next few days
4. Confirmed how much she owed - herself!
5. Became evasive and would not respond when that time expired.
Well, I have posted a copy of that very live chat conversation elsewhere and I will post it here too. What I wont do is have some blogger tell me what I need to do with my business practices or demand that I remove content that, without a doubt, doesnt even belong to him/her. http://www.legendcityonline.com/simone.html
Secondly, the person that created or uploaded that very content will not turn around and state her content is now stolen because "she says so" and after a suspension of the account has taken place. If content is uploaded by its creator it will remain the intellectual property of said avatar or person. Period.
Third, Our team has and continues to work tirelessly to be welcoming to all content creators. We listen to our community and respect them wholeheartedly. It doesnt make sense to invest the lives of my team or myself in an indeavor in which our main objective would be to steal content. This is absurd and I can only say I know most see thru such a straw-man fallacy. I hope I have been clear here and I appreciate those that either know me personally or know me socially to not even reply to blogs whose sole purpose is to feed someone's daily need for chaos and gossip.
I wish you all continued success in all your endeavors, be it in Legend City, SL or any other matrix and we wish you and yours Happy Holidays.
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