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That's A Story For The Ladies Bowls Club Meeting

Overshadowed by that other lawsuit (where's your media hype machine now, Second Life?), a decision has been reached in Leatherwood vs Eros LLC, AKA the "Secretly Stolen Cyber-Sex (And Scantily Clad!) Script" case.

In the end, Robert Leatherwood was hit by the full weight of the law which resulted in serious ramifications that amounted to, well, nothing really.

A US federal judge accepted a settlement in the case last week that doesn't involve money or an admission of wrongdoing from Leatherwood.

Reached at his grandmother's home...

I think he's been punished enough.

Today's Lesson From EQ2Flames is...

When burning a bridge, you may as well scorch earth the river banks as well.

This is a screenshot of a PM from Aeralik to his guild leader on Blackburrow. The text of the screenshot is a bug report submitted to SOE by a player. The fourth paragraph describes how to exploit game mechanics to kill Druushk, the gateway mob to getting mythical epics from all the mobs in the 2nd and 3rd wings of VP. In the PM, Aeralik is communicating the PM to his guild leader, and telling him it is ok for his guild to use so they can get their mythicals.

Make that two bridges.

I find what LFG and Niber did to be distasteful. I believe that a private message should be just that. It shouldn't be opened by someone who is not the intended receiver. It should not be posted. It should be private.

Ah, Easter. Such a sharing time of the year. Epics, anyone?

My Surreal Moment Of The Day

Writing this post on a supped up computer with a high-speed internet connection surrounded by 50 other people basking in the glow of monitors as they play, chat and Facebook 150 meters from the epitome of the Soviet Union; the Kremlin and Lenin's body.

P.S. To any MMO publisher not currently splashing around in the Russian market, or not yet thinking of wading in with their swimmers pulled up high as they exclaim "Oooh! It's so cold!" with each step; Do it.

Some companies already have the right idea, but with the growing economy now really starting to change the social demographics as well as the technological capabilities, the Russian market is set to go off soon. The market is especially ripe for a casual/social orientated MMO. Or so a little Babushka tells me.

None of this is really earth-shattering, but it is certainly something else to see it from this side of the border.