It is now clearly confirmes that any gambling in Second Life is agains the Terms and Conditions of use. One indicator how serious it is is that even Ginko stopped their weekly lottery. I certainly did not visit all casinos, but I guess they all shut their slot machines down.
Another hint is that group notices for parties no longer mention any sploder. I'm even guessing if Platinum is impacted by that or not, as their camping rate is random. May be they escape the new rule because there is no need to pay to start earning.
Regarding the 1'000'000 L$ lottery I initially envisaged to do when I will have earnd my million Linden Dollars, I have to find something new. The only thing that won't change is that it will be given to one of the "Free Money from JohnLight" group.
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Friday, July 27, 2007
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Casinos banned from Second Life
The group was very active today, as whole of Second Life probably, because Linden Lab announced on the official blog that all gambling activities are now forbidden !
We had a long discussion about it, discussing if it was advertisment for gambling, or gambling itself. Apparently gambling is now illegal in SL, as the US law makes online casinos illegal. One interesting point was the definition of gambling as "a game one have to pay to enter and which result is chosen randomly, and prize is L$". Some were really disapointed, because this definition also cover... sploders !
Apparently Linden Lab will close such places, and remove such objects. No evidence of such activities have been seen as no member was in a casino by this time. Anyway, casino only help you to loose money, not to earn ;-). I will report later on the closure or not of all casinos.
The post also mention that local laws are applicable, which is not so clear for anyone. Another point was to know if SL is more populated by US or non-US people, and the question of moving the Linden Lab servers somewhere else has been raised, with no satisfactory answer.
The single point on which all present group members did agree is that this could have a strong impact on SecondLife economy, but we all beleive that Second Life will survive it, and business will find another way...
I'm by far not a legal expert, so if I wrote any mistake down, please correct me. Any comment are welcome on this red hot topic !
This is a bit provocative, but if casinos have to shut down, there will still be the sex industry to continue Linden Lab business !
We had a long discussion about it, discussing if it was advertisment for gambling, or gambling itself. Apparently gambling is now illegal in SL, as the US law makes online casinos illegal. One interesting point was the definition of gambling as "a game one have to pay to enter and which result is chosen randomly, and prize is L$". Some were really disapointed, because this definition also cover... sploders !
Apparently Linden Lab will close such places, and remove such objects. No evidence of such activities have been seen as no member was in a casino by this time. Anyway, casino only help you to loose money, not to earn ;-). I will report later on the closure or not of all casinos.
The post also mention that local laws are applicable, which is not so clear for anyone. Another point was to know if SL is more populated by US or non-US people, and the question of moving the Linden Lab servers somewhere else has been raised, with no satisfactory answer.
The single point on which all present group members did agree is that this could have a strong impact on SecondLife economy, but we all beleive that Second Life will survive it, and business will find another way...
I'm by far not a legal expert, so if I wrote any mistake down, please correct me. Any comment are welcome on this red hot topic !
This is a bit provocative, but if casinos have to shut down, there will still be the sex industry to continue Linden Lab business !
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Today camping bring 161 L$ more - 2787.56 L$ total by Ginko
Quite standard camping, apart from some testing a casino, on a 5L$ / 10 minutes campchair.
Once activated, it gives you five cycles, so a total of 25 L$ within 50 minutes, but to activate it you have to play a slot machine, which costs 10 L$. In my case I lost these 10 L$, so the total was only 15 L$ / 50 minutes.
Then you have to replay to reactivate the chair, so this is not something that can be used daylong, as the macs are at my home, and I was in my office all day.
Once activated, it gives you five cycles, so a total of 25 L$ within 50 minutes, but to activate it you have to play a slot machine, which costs 10 L$. In my case I lost these 10 L$, so the total was only 15 L$ / 50 minutes.
Then you have to replay to reactivate the chair, so this is not something that can be used daylong, as the macs are at my home, and I was in my office all day.
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