Nu Vibez and Roleplay Guide Magazine - January 2014 | Page 45

Stroker Strikes Back - p6

enterprise, and then you relegate yourself to part of
the compe on. Even though I am compe ve by
nature and want to be the best that I can be offering
compelling products, I have never been one to isolate
myself thereby falling into that trap of “I have got to be
the biggest and the best.” I never considered myself
the biggest and the best, merely a player in the game.
N V M: Have you no ced a change in the S L
climate/economy since your return? And if so, do you
envision it affec ng your success this me around?
STROKER: It's more isolated now. More people look
at it as "me against Second Life" (as in LL or the grid).
With all the notoriety of Copybot and TOS, there's a
certain amount of paranoia out there. I've seen that
paranoia manifest in ways that are detrimental.
People are locking down content to the extreme, taking
their crea ons off to SQL databases that may or may
not be the most effec ve way to present their
products. Some have had some success, others have
not. But it's the pendulum thing, swinging both ways.
In the middle of the Copybot errup on, we had a
Copybot revolt where everyone closed their shops in
response to LL's ineffec ve approach. As a result,
they've really go en be er now, which is one of the
reasons I made the decision to put the past behind me

and make a phoenix reprisal as it were. LL now sees it
more as a business rather than some conceptual idea
of turning the internet into a metaverse approach.
NVM: That's interes ng that you say that, as there is
an awful lot of opinion about how they're killing off the
community even more these days because of what
they just did with the TOS. What do you think of the
new TOS, how do you think it’s going to affect you
personally and content crea on as a whole.
STROKER: Well, my opinion is just my opinion. I've
not done a lot of research, but from the few blog posts
that I have read, it seemed to me to be a basic legalese
CYA that you see all over the place. You see it in online
so ware and in content crea on sites like TurboSquid.
The way I look at it is this, and again, this is just my
perspec ve, but, if LL wanted to take my content, there
is nothing I can do about it! First of all, its residing on
their servers and it's not any good to me anywhere but
in SL. The scrip ng won't work for me anywhere else.
Granted the anima ons are portable, but even the
anima ons we use in SL are so rudimentary and short
they're not really produc ve and useful in other
pla orms. The rig that they use is very simplis c for
streaming purposes and they've got a very unique
creature there. So my way of looking at it, my content
always was their content.
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