Seeds of Fire in Dream

Had some inter­est­ing things hap­pen to me lately.

It’s well known about me that I have a much wider range of size accep­tance in the females I find attrac­tive than many peo­ple — if you want to know more, I’ll talk your ear off, but that’s not the point of this post: suf­fice it to say that I have a fond­ness for curvy women that not many other peo­ple share in this skinny-focused soci­ety. I find pin­ups such as the ones done by Les Toil very attrac­tive, for exam­ple. ¹

Les Toil. There’s no sign that says, “We are sell­ing these pin­ups by per­mis­sion from Les.”

I’ve been to his site before — it’s hard not to be a size accep­tance per­son and not know about him — I wanted to check to see if he knew about this place. So I wrote to him and asked him about it, and he let me know that he hadn’t given any­one on Sec­ond Life per­mis­sion to sell his stuff, and would I speak to them about it before he has to turn to legal recourse? I said that I would, and I did.

These are extremely para­phrased com­mu­ni­ca­tions, mind you, but here’s the gist of them:

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I’m not wor­ried about being banned — this is not the sort of place I need in my every day Sec­ond Life! But I really think it was a pretty child­ish thing to do.

Now, I real­ize he has rights under the DMCA, and he may yet to pur­sue them. I was only too happy to help because I am a big fan or Mr. Toil’s work, but I think, in the end, in order to be safe, he’s going to have to pur­sue DMCA takedown.

I hate get­ting involved in drama, but I felt this was a good cause. Still, it is amaz­ing to me that peo­ple in Sec­ond Life have this capac­ity for self-deception. They think that just because it’s very easy to upload any tex­ture they please, that they auto­mat­i­cally own the tex­tures, even when it’s some­one else’s intel­lec­tual property.

Ah, well. Maybe some­day when Mr. Par­adise is older, he’ll cre­ate some­thing — let’s say cloth­ing or a new avatar or some kind of nifty some­thing.… and he’ll have it taken and sold with­out his knowl­edge or per­mis­sion. I won­der, then, how he will feel? I hope that doesn’t hap­pen to him, but karma has a way of teach­ing you the lessons you need to know.