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Is Gambling Legal in Second Life?

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 […]

SL, Open Source and A Connected Metaverse

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 […]

Tracking Real Money Trading in Second Life

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