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I saw this headline this evening and almost can't believe what I read: Virtual sex machine spawns lawsuit Now let me make sure I've got this straight. There is a program out there called Second Life, sort of an online game, only with no real goal. You pay to play it. You have to buy virtual money to buy virtual stuff to go with your virtual character so you can have virtual fun. And have virtual sex. None of this is actually real. You buy a virtual condo, but you can't actually live in it. You buy a virtual car, but you can't actually drive it. You buy a virtual dick, but you can't actually jack off with it... Does anybody else see how ridiculous this sounds? And yet the people who invented this are making money hand over fist with it! My god, what ever happened to actually having a real life? I mean, I know it's hard to get out and meet people and make friends. I'm a stay-at-home-mom, so you know I know. But even I don't have the time to deal with all this virtual crap! I'm too busy chasing after the real kids, cleaning the real house, and keeping up with my real husband. And I'm doing all of this from 5 AM until 11 PM every single day. What is it with these people living this virtual life? Do they really have that much time and money to waste? Or is it simply that their real lives aren't good enough for them? Please, someone explain it to me. To be honest, I suppose I should confess that I have bought a 3D penis, but that was because the penis that comes with the Poser male characters does fall a little short in the poseability category. Yeah, I bought a digital dick for artistic purposes. Sue me. Update (11 Aug 2007): I suppose I should briefly mention that this lawsuit is about someone who developed code for Second Life that allows the players' avatars to have virtual sex. I can kind of see the point. It's porn-on-demand, with the user directing the show, but honestly, if this is the only kind of sex a person can get, and it's the only kind of life said person's got, that's really sad. Anyway, the inventor of this code has been selling it for a profit, but now someone has cracked his copy protection on the code and is selling it illegally, thus stealing profits from the original creator. In the end it all boils down to a violation of intellectual property rights, but it still boggles my mind that people have these second, virtual, useless lives. Labels: In The News, Sex and Technology |
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I updated the post to explain what the actual law suit was about. Basically, someone developed add-on code for Second Life that allows the players' avatars to have virtual sex. The inventor of this code has been selling it for a profit, but now someone has cracked his copy protection on the code and is selling it illegally, thus stealing profits from the original creator. In the end it all boils down to a violation of intellectual property rights, but I still can't get over the idea that people have these second lives. It just boggles the mind. Aren't their first lives good enough?
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