We’re Back!
Posted by Simon Lameth on May 20, 2006
After a few weeks of inactivity, The Second Life Times is back!
Update: Philip Rosedale (Creator of SL) Featured in June issue of Wired Magazine
**CORRECTION: June issue, not July **
Philip (Linden) Rosedale is featured in the June issue of Wired in the awards section. Philip is compared to US Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan for their control over economies.
Linden Labs sued by Resident Marc Woebegone
From PRnewswire.com:
WEST CHESTER, Pa., May 8 /PRNewswire/ — On May 1st, 2006, a possible
first-of-its-kind lawsuit was filed in local district justice court to seek
remedy for a virtual land deal gone sour. The suit seeks financial damages
in the thousands, in part for a breach of a virtual land auction contract
and for violation of the Pennsylvania Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer
Protection Law. This suit is unique because the land doesn’t actually
exist.
Marc Woebegone, known in the real word as Marc Bragg, has filed suit in
the local district justice court in West Chester, Pennsylvania, a small
town located 25 miles west of Philadelphia, PA. Bragg purchased virtual
land, known in Second Life as “sims,” using real US currency. Bragg learned
of a way to purchase virtual land significantly below market values, and
invested thousands of US dollars purchasing land in an attempt to resell
this land at a profit. Bragg claims that employees of Linden Research,
Inc., the company who creates, manages and maintains this online world,
allowed the auction to be created, and after Bragg paid US dollars for the
land, terminated Bragg’s account, without explanation, without citing any
violation of community policy, and have since refused offer a credit or a
refund.
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