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Is Gambling Legal in Second Life?

12. January 2007

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The Bush administration insists that Internet gambling violates U.S. law, to the point where last July federal agents arrested BetonSports.com CEO David Carruthers when he was changing flights at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. If it’s illegal for U.S. residents to gamble online, what’s the legal status of an online casino in Second Life? The Second Life [...]

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SL, Open Source and A Connected Metaverse

8. January 2007

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In the wake of Linden Labs’ widely-blogged decision to open source the code for the Second Life client (desktop) software, Steve O’Hear at ZDNet looks at a more intriguing possibility: opening the code for the Second Life server grid and allowing virtual worlds to interoperate. The concept isn’t novel, as there have been [...]

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Tracking Real Money Trading in Second Life

7. January 2007

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Power users in Second Life are spending as much as $60 a week in the game.

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