BY DAVID KARIUKI · AUGUST 9, 2017
If you’re using a default avatar that comes with some versions of OpenSim, your name might wind up on copybotted content without you knowing about it.
That’s just what happened to a user known as “Gemini Fullmoon,” a resident of the Great Canadian Grid. Fullmoon is also the owner of the Full Moon Designs store on the Kitely Market.
Last summer, Fullmoon set up a private mini-grid on a home computer, renamed the default avatar to “Gemini Fullmoon” and then traveled to a couple of other grids to test it out.
“It was pretty kool at the time I have to say,” Fullmoon told Hypergrid Business. “Once I figured out how to do it I quickly lost interest and pretty much stopped playing with Sim-on-a-Stick.”
However, that was enough time for the “Gemini Fullmoon” avatar name to get attached to copybotted inventory items uploaded by totally unrelated people, and, last month, Fullmoon’s name came up in a discussion about illegal content on the OpenSim Virtual community on Google Plus. One of Fullmoon’s alts, “Alex Reese99,” also had the same problem.
