[opensource-dev] Banning by client

Malachi malachi at tamzap.com
Sun May 2 19:03:40 PDT 2010


then what exactly does cds ban? if no clients? because as long as you only  
use emerald or second life then you wont get banned by cds. if you start  
dabbling on other clients you get banned. so what does cds ban if no  
clients?
On Sun, 02 May 2010 19:01:19 -0300, Skills Hak  
<simonepepper at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Um, please don't confuse this incident with CDS which doesn't ban clients
> arbitrarily, this seems to be about a similar system of a more
> unscrupulous "competitor". There isn't even a copybot client with
> Snowglobe 2.0.0
> (3333) (CommunityDeveloper) as base we are aware of, so not sure why
> zFire Xue is banning it.
>
>> The below reviews have me raising eyebrows...
>
> The people with bad reviews are mostly copybotters who have been
> banned by the system and are coming up with crazy quicktime hack
> theories, Dekadance Mint isn't even in search any more.
>
> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Tigro Spottystripes
> <tigrospottystripes at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> according to Skill LL knows how the system works and has not taken any
>> measures to prevent it, which indicates they are ok with it
>>
>> On 1/5/2010 18:50, Bryon Ruxton wrote:
>>> Is that thing really exploiting a quicktime hack?
>>> I.e. Trying to protect Computer Crimes Law by violating the very same  
>>> laws.
>>> If so, isn't that against the LL TOS and shouldn't it be taken down by  
>>> LL?
>>> The below reviews have me raising eyebrows...
>>>
>>> https://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=2138
>>> 424&allReviews=1#reviews
>>>
>>> "Sandrina Koolhoven on 2010-03-22
>>> 27 of 71 members found this review helpful.
>>> "THIS system is indeed using a hack through Quicktime that gains  
>>> access to a
>>> persons hard drive. This system has been torn down and looked at.  
>>> Scanning
>>> yours or my HDD is a clear violation of USA Privacy laws and only LL  
>>> has a
>>> right to know who your alts are, not the designer of this system."...
>>>
>>> Dekadance Mint on 2010-03-17
>>> 79 of 165 members found this review helpful.
>>> "Easiest method to avoid detection by this device requires no  
>>> compiling or
>>> programming, just add "-noquicktime" into the short cut, and this  
>>> device
>>> can't detect you untill Skills finds a new method of detection. I say  
>>> this
>>> tidbit of info because the appeal process is atrocious and horrible  
>>> from my
>>> experience."
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/30/10 10:06 PM, "Tigro Spottystripes"  
>>> <tigrospottystripes at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
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>>>> there is Skill's CDS system
>>>>
>>>> On 1/5/2010 01:45, Andromeda Quonset wrote:
>>>>> I went there.  I saw a "GC Continental" was on the ban list for both
>>>>> of the sims.  That was the closest I could find to you.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am not aware of there being any autobanners that ban by client that
>>>>> any landowner or sim owner can use.  I don't know of any way to
>>>>> detect via script or estate or land controls what client someone is  
>>>>> even
>>>>> using.
>>>>>
>>>>> I do know there is maintenance going on, and regions being
>>>>> restarted.  Perhaps you were simply caught in a sim restart.
>>>>>
>>>>> At 09:49 PM 4/30/2010, Glen Canaday wrote:
>>>>>> There are autobanners that ban by client, no? Full-sim, estate ban?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm on Snowglobe 2 and just got banned from both The Loft and The  
>>>>>> Loft
>>>>>> II; both are furniture store sims. Can someone TP there and test if  
>>>>>> they
>>>>>> get banned? If someone is banning by presence on the TPV list, then  
>>>>>> snow
>>>>>> needs to be on it rather than listed separately... (tho I could have
>>>>>> sworn it WAS on it)...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --GC
>>>
>>>
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