[sldev] CAPTCHA to validate land sales.

[Ada Radius]

In a RL economy, the land bots could be considered a benefit - increasing
liquidity in the land market.  I don't use them, but if I want to get rid of
land in a hurry, I'm glad they're there.  Since LL controls both currency
and land supply, and they're a for-profit entity (and no better or worse at
economics than governments), liquidity in both land and L$ can be
puzzling.   I do think that there should be more security in the way that
money is handled in-game (getting rid of L$ would be a good thing).  Along
with more straightforward ways of describing "land" and "land sales" - we're
leasing CPU usage, after all, and paying for sets of locations.  It's not RL
land, and shouldn't be handled as though it were.  CAPTCHA is one way to go
for that security - my RL bank has other ways - those are the folks we
should be looking at for precedent and experience on money transactions, I
think.
Ada Radius

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> Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:58:49 -0600
> From: Taran Rampersad <cnd at knowprose.com>
> Subject: Re: [sldev] CAPTCHA to validate land sales.
> To: Matthew Dowd <matthew.dowd at hotmail.co.uk>
> Cc: sldev at lists.secondlife.com
> Message-ID: <47051BC9.5050706 at knowprose.com>
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> Matthew Dowd wrote:
> >
> > >> Whatever you may personally feel about landbots - their use is not
> > >> illegal in SL nor against the TOS.
> > >Lets quit mixing 'legality' and ToS. ToS is a contract, subject to
> > >contract law. It is not *THE* Law.
> >
> > I never said it was *THE* law - the word "illegal" can be quite
> > legitimately used as a synonym for banned, prohibited etc. without it
> > necessarily being anything to do the the Law of the land.
> No. The word 'illegal' has very different connotations. It quite
> literally means, "against the law".
>
> Against ToS? Against Community Standards? Legitimate. Saying something
> is illegal is a very different thing. The ToS and Community Standards
> have been in court at least once, and were modified due partly to the
> legality of the ToS itself.
>
> I fully expect 'fictional currency' to be the next sticking point.
>
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