[sldev] Re: Texture bugs.

[Argent Stonecutter]

On Jan 23, 2007, at 11:54 AM, Jason wrote:
> Regarding web bugs, media URLs are just as trivial to use to  
> collect IPs.

Yes, I've already had to calm down one person in SL freaking out  
about media bugs (see my previous message about content creators).  
There's a huge difference between using media bugs and texture bugs  
for this purpose, and that is you have to be a landowner to use media  
bugs, you can't change them quickly, and they're only useful for  
people who actually visit your property. With texture bugs you could  
put one in an almost invisible part of an attachment behind a 1%  
alpha texture overlay and change it every few seconds, and collect  
information everywhere you go.

You could even put them in scripted freebies and get hundreds of  
newbies serving as innocent collectors.