Well if you haven't heard about it already, Maxwell Graf of Rustica Home Furnishings is deleting his sim due to a gigantic failure on Linden Lab's part to fully pursue and prosecute a DMCA claim against another Second Life user that has been stealing his designs.

Well, regardless of the Lindens incompetence since this directly involves at least four CCS enabled sims you can be damn sure WE are not incompetent and WE will stand up for Maxwell Graf even though we don't even know him, where the Lindens have failed to do so.

The owners of the sims in question have been contacted by me and I've made a demand that all offending materials in their sim built by the accused user be removed, up to and including the entire build on the sim if necessary.

The accused user has also been permanently banned from CCS and his IP has been blacklisted at the subnet level.

The sims in question will be rebuilt or have rebuild plans in my hands by the end of the weekend or the sims will no longer be CCS active.

I will stand up and do the right thing where the Lindens have failed....yet again, to do the same. CCS stands for originality, creativity and the individual rights and creative copyrights of all developers in Second Life and we will not allow this to go without answer at the level we can address it at.

We can't ban the user from Second Life, but we can ban him from CCS, we can't get the alleged stolen work out of his inventory, but we can get it off sims we provide service to.

So thats what we're going to do. Any sim thats had any builds done by the defendant in this DMCA dispute should remove the offending content immediately, I will be watching and waiting to see if other sims come up as sims that are using builds made by this individual and the same stance will be taken with every sim that is affected by this. You will return the build and rebuild, or you will find another combat system, no matter how much I like you or how good a relationship we've had over the last 3 - 4 years.

CCS will stand up where the Lindens refuse to do so. Because in this situation we can. The builds will be removed, or the sims will be removed.

Shame on you Linden Labs. Making me do your job for you.