I have seen AviWorlds @AlexRFerraris pushing this same argument on Twitter recently so perhaps OSgrid should be shut down pending a purge of their database. I'm sure AviWorlds would welcome the refugees from OSgrid with free land plots. Anyway, there is enough stolen content on Second Life to sink Linden Labs I'm sure if anyone could prove it was stolen which is really not that easy to do since nearly everything can be re-engineered without changing perms on a single stolen prim. Everything has a look and feel so everything can be remade pretty much the same with perhaps a few difference and texture changes. Who owns the copyright on the first pair of knickers ever made or a dress style, a building structure or what a particular script does? There have been many similar products that became subject of dispute in Second Life with one creator swearing their product was copied. I was once set on by a store owner as I was browsing demanding to know where I got my outfit as the sculpted scarf was a copy of one she made, so she claimed. I learned later from the seller of my outfit the sculpt came from a box of designer's sculpts and no case against her was brought or proved.
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