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You may not buy into it, but in the points I made there is really only one entity which can do something. Maybe something like that hasn't affected you personally yet. When you can figure out how a woman in Germany can get $1,500 US from a John Doe landbot owner, or a woman in Italy $2,000 US from the SAME John Doe, and you can say that it is accessible and therefore enforceable - you have something (and these are real issues). But you really can't, not without involving Linden Lab in the lawsuit. Some say that this may happen soon. Linden Lab is in the middle, even if it tries to sidestep it with the ToS.

If Linden Lab provided the community more tools to self-regulate, well... to borrow your metaphor, Linden Lab is saying, "I'm not your daddy, I'm not your daddy" but the reality is that people don't want a 'daddy'. They want solutions. They want tools to create those solutions.

And lets be frank. Linden Lab created its own situation.

Now, you're talking about legal actions an such... and at internet governance levels, that still hasn't been sorted out. To expect it to be sorted out here without internet governance issues even on a concrete path... well, draw your own conclusion.

I get where you're coming from - trust me on that. But on a different level, policy has to be in place. It could be Linden Lab policy, or we could wait around for internet policy, or Linden Lab could provide for tools which do allow for self-regulation. We're all going to be up to our eyeballs in lawyers at the rate we're going.

For the record - bots are a 'normal reality' for those who have them, policy is needed regarding bots (be it by Linden Lab, or enforceable by community - but if community has no teeth with the tools provided, well...).

If Linden Lab every OPENED its server source, the community would probably have already stepped in. But they keep adding 'features'.

Saying that the casino ban was PR aspirin is something I do not understand. Credit Card processing companies simply don't support the majority of those transactions, and that is policy. The casino PR ban was a reaction to policy by organizations Linden Lab does listen to - people who impact their bottom line.

Now, you're talking about open servers, and search and services... Don't you think if they opened the server someone could write a SQL query and get the same results without a bot? :-)

Interesting discussion. More people should be involved in discussion like this - when that happens, it will be a good thing. However, there are just a few of us talking at these levels, and quite frankly - that is not enough.

And that does mean involving people in discussion... I wonder if anyone else will bite on this discussion. Let's see.