![]() The Lab also appeared unwilling to engage in the matter, despite extortion being a criminal act. Much of what happened in this matter appeared to go unreported outside of fashion circles – few blog (this one included) reported on the matter, despite the problems apparently occurring over a span of months. They did so by crashing large fashion events and then demanding payment in order to not crash future events. ![]() This saw an SL user already complicit in copying skins and shapes, and whose profile boasted they had scant regard for the ToS together with outright threats against content creators, start to use griefing as an attempt to extort money from others. The fashion world in SL has recently been subject to this latter situation. There are times, however, when griefing – which is actually crossing the line each and every time it occurs – crosses a the line not only in terms of resigned acceptance, but also in terms of criminal behaviour. I say this not to excuse what goes on, but to underline the fact that right or wrong, most of us in hearing about it tend to shrug our shoulders and then carry on with our lives. It’s not necessarily an agreeable subculture or one we particularly want or need, but it is there all the same. It’s a fact of life that griefing is part of the subculture of Second Life.
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