CDS Discussion

Which is exactly what our legal system as presently constituted will avoid.

[quote="Ashcroft Burnham":1vpw6osh][url=http://www.55tc.com/jamesp.html:1vpw6osh]This[/url:1vpw6osh] is me. Who are you?[/quote:1vpw6osh]You've worked for Bono? What's he like?

But it's pretty clear from that that Bono is a [i:28q3b93e]Pro[/i:28q3b93e].

Don't forget about the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono ... t:117vvquu]Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act[/url:117vvquu]. I Got You Babe.

[quote="Gxeremio Dimsum":21vkth0d]You might enjoy [url=http://www.secondlifeherald.com/slh/200 ... e:21vkth0d]this article from the SL Herald[/url:21vkth0d] about a current lawsuit, as well as a previous situation with The Sims Online. Granted, these deal with the service provider, but it is precisely because of their role as a "judge, jury, and executioner" that these kinds of suits have any traction.[/quote:21vkth0d]

That is about Linden Lab taking money from somebody for land then taking that land away from him for violating the ToS - effectively a breach of contract dispute. If we would be liable for anything like this at all, it would be because we banished people at all, and not because, if we did so, we did so following a trial in accordance with our law. Indeed, just plain banning people, as most SL estate owners do, without any hearing at all, is far [i:21vkth0d]more[/i:21vkth0d] likely to lead to this sort of case than doing so after a fair hearing.