Plenty of media stuff on Second Life is still being spat out and I haven’t read much that’s of real interest. If anything, it’s now the people writing about Second Life that catches my attention. In the meantime, however, I did read one relatively minor comment that is worth mentioning here. From C|Net’s inworld interview of Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale (Link):

One thing that will help is when attacks on “Second Life” are properly treated and prosecuted as cybercrimes, and we are working a lot on that.

Did he say “when”?

For those of you who recall, I was one of the few who took some early assurances that griefers and gridbusters were being pursued by authorities for their attacks with a very large grain of salt (reLink 1, reLink 2) after some initial assurances seemed to be mostly hot air. It appears that my suspicians of Linden Lab’s impotence in dealing with the issue are being verified. To be fair, it’s not their fault. But they should, imo, be more straightforward about the difficulties they’re apparently encountering. Personally, I suspect the problem won’t be resolved any time soon and no one should expect it to be.