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You'd have to be an idiot to trust something like that in a world where a Linden blog post can make or break industries overnight...

No, not an idiot. The illusion is removed, that is all. Plenty of smart people get taken in by illusions every day.

...We really need to see people like Nicholas and Luke arrested for stealing money via their fraud. People invested their real money into SL, converting it to a "fictional" currency, in which these individuals among others have reconverted into real money, so I'm hard pressed at seeing this as "imaginary" currency--we all know it's not...

Dunno that Luke took anything or not, at least directly. The handling of GPB by WSE certainly raises some ethical questions (and perhaps some legal ones), as did the issues related to Midas Commons.

You know, come to think of it... a legal letter may be what caused Linden Lab to move. Intriguing.

You are right about the press wane. Of course, people want to read about how to make money out of nothing - it really is a big selling point. They would rather that than hear about people losing large sums of money. Perhaps the press is irresponsible in not reporting the truth, but circulation numbers mean a lot to advertisers. You could get me really going on that, I suppose... but that is really off topic for what I write about on Y2P, so... I'll let that go. :-)

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