![]() ![]() That’s awkward in a world where such virtual goods can be sold for real money. What would happen to business and society if you could easily make a copy of anything – not just MP3s and DVDs, but clothes, chairs and even houses? That may not be a problem most of us will have to confront for a while yet, but the 1.5m residents of the virtual world Second Life are already grappling with this issue.Ī new program called CopyBot allows Second Life users to duplicate repeatedly certain elements of any object in the vicinity – and sometimes all of it. From Glyn Moody’s “ The duplicitous inhabitants of Second Life” ( The Guardian: 23 November 2006): ![]()
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