CALL TO ALL SECOND LIFERS - ENOUGH WAS ENOUGH

Texture stealing has been an issue in SL for quite some time. But now it seams that it has reached its culmination. All the designers are revolted, and everyone shows their displeasure in different ways. MM Skins stopped the creation of new skins, and PopFuzz closed the store. Not only the designers, but this affects greatly the customers as well. The number of thieves and stolen textures are growing rapidly. But the question is when it is going to stop??? When Linden Labs are going to do something about this??? Huge percentage of the SL economy relies on this, so they do have a lot to loose if this continues. And will the thieves ever think for a bit and put themselves in the place of the creators??? They put a lot of effort and time in creation of these textures, and by this theft they are totally disrespected.

But the fault is not only in the thieves. We, the customers are the ones buying these stolen items. Some of us (the scum) do it intentionally, being aware of what they are doing, but there are also the ones that are unaware that the items that they have bought are stolen. They are also the ones being ripped off, together with the original creators. Regarding the first ones - DO YOU REALLY WANT SOME ASSHOLES TO GET RICH ON SOMEBODY ELSES EXPENCE AND YOUR DUMBNESS AND IGNORANCE???????? Concerning the latter ones, more violent informing of the public should be done. Till the moment of writing this, there are only a handful of bloggers that have discussed this problem in their blogs. Even I have just found out that this has become an issue of extreme proportions, even though I was previously aware of the matter.

So if you want do something about this, and help in resolving this problem, please inform as many people as possible, in whatever means possible - post in your blog if you have one, IM your friends even if they are offline, post in forums, if you have a group inform the members, etc. There are so many ways. And in order to get the attention of Linden Labs so they will start getting more involved in this, vote for this issue on https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-676. Because THIS HAS GOT TO STOP!!! I am not saying once and for all, because I am aware that this will never stop. There will always be some scum that will try to get rich of somebody else's effort, and they will always find new ways of performing the theft, if the former one is not longer effective.  But if we stay ahead, get more informed, share our information with others and start taking responsibility for our own actions, we can lessen the effect and the mayhem this is causing.