{"id":1058,"date":"2006-10-18T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2006-10-27T21:29:47","modified_gmt":"2006-10-28T01:29:47","slug":"an-apparent-griefer-gridlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1058","title":{"rendered":"An Apparent Griefer Gridlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty of media stuff on Second Life is still being spat out and I haven&#8217;t read much that&#8217;s of real interest. If anything, it&#8217;s now the people <em>writing<\/em> about Second Life that catches my attention. In the meantime, however, I did read one relatively minor comment that is worth mentioning here. From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Taking+Second+Life+to+the+next+level\/2008-1043_3-6126881.html?tag=nefd.lede\">C|Net&#8217;s inworld interview of Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale (Link)<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One thing that will help is when attacks on &#8220;Second Life&#8221; are properly treated and prosecuted as cybercrimes, and we are working a lot on that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did he say &#8220;when&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>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 (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=498\">reLink 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=881\">reLink 2<\/a>) after some initial assurances seemed to be mostly hot air. It appears that my suspicians of Linden Lab&#8217;s impotence in dealing with the issue are being verified. To be fair, it&#8217;s not their fault. But they should, imo, be more straightforward about the difficulties they&#8217;re apparently encountering. Personally, I suspect the problem won&#8217;t be resolved any time soon and no one should expect it to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty of media stuff on Second Life is still being spat out and I haven&#8217;t read much that&#8217;s of real interest. If anything, it&#8217;s now the people writing about Second Life that catches my attention. In the meantime, however, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1058\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}