Your2ndPlace

I'm a creator, so of course this brought concern to me.
So, I went and searched last night for the 'naughtiest, baddest, wickedest' version of a prim duplicator I could find. Because of my testing, I'll even say publicly it's the KDF "black" version.

I have tested it extensively.
It's incredibly easy to use and very effective.
There are two versions: "White" and "Black". Only the "White version is available online through SL Exchange and OnRez.

The difference is the "White" version allows you to copy only prims where you are the creator. The "Black version allows you to copy any prims.

HOWEVER, the Linden Lab permissions system works flawlessly.

I won't go into a long-winded diatribe and step-by-steps of my test. So I'll simply qualify it this way:

I used my main and two alt accounts to create prim furniture (not just 'boxes', but actual, albeit quick and sloppy furniture with shapes, flexie, textures and so on.)

The product worked flawlessly on all full permissions 'products' among all three persons - including a third generation.

However, in the short of it (and the creator/developer of this product does state these facts in the information notecard available before sale):

ALL prims in the linked set *must* be modifiable. I did not test whether a no-copy version could be duplicated as I was short on time. any prim in the set that is not modifiable will not be duplicated.

Textures: i found that textures did duplicate well, though I did not check on no copy textures. I suspect those also will copy as any prim only refers to the UUID anyway. So, technically, there is not suck thing as a no-copy texture (except in the case of the "file" in your inventory - once on a prim, that doesn't have any effect anyway - except that it changes the permissions on that prim.)

Contents: Landmarks and notecards copied smoothly.
Scripts and animations were a different story. it was not successful in a bed I made that had 150 items inside - the animations and scripts did not copy (MLP scripts) - my own permissions for next owner on all those items were no-mod/no-copy. And even though I was the owner, they still did not copy.

Other scripts and animations DID copy - I duplicated a toilet with a sit animation. The script and animation duplicated fine, but the script failed to work in the copy. it refused to reset and simply would NOT function. I was not the creator of the script, but I do have a full-permissions license, except modify.

The same with Outy's fire scripts in another piece. The script simple failed to work, even though it copied over nicely. I was not the creator and it is no-modify, but I otherwise have full perms.

HENCE: ALL OBJECTS MUST BE MODIFY.
if ANY object (prim or contents) are no modify, it either will not be duplicated or it will 'break'.

Hence, it's a GREAT tool as a builder. I fell in love with it in the short time I've had to test it. However, any doubts or fears should be put completely to rest about these prim duplicators.

The Linden Lab permissions system seems to work just fine and it does it's job. As for hollow prims to be stolen, such as hair... my asnwer would be to use the resizing scripts and/or make it partially no-mod... underlying prims, for example.

Anyway, there's some hands-on, tried to cheat but failed feedback on it all.

Ari Blackthorne