![]() ![]() Quite a few people make their living in SecondLife, running businesses that make Linden-Dollar profits, which are then cashed in for U.S. Linden Dollars are real money – they can be traded for U.S. Objects can be sold for a currency called Linden Dollars. Residents are given a sophisticated toolset they can use to design complex objects, specifying the objects’ shape, appearance, and behavior. SecondLife has about 1.5 million residents. If you’re not familiar with virtual worlds, you might think the word “economy” is a stretch. (Here’s a Reuters story.) This raises some interesting technical issues, but I want to focus today on how it effects SecondLife’s economy. Somebody in SecondLife, a popular multiplayer virtual world, created a gadget called the CopyBot, which can make a perfect copy of any object in the SecondLife world. Here’s one from the It-Was-Only-a-Matter-of-Time file.
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