Privacy seems to be quite the watchword, especially where online matters are concerned. We have a generation here that assumes that their "public" activities online carry the right of complete anonymity - the moral equivalent of a city whose entire population wear masks and are not obliged to identify themselves when confronted.

For an environment like SL to survive and grow and have any sembalance of order, there need to be routes for addressing legal conflicts. Unfortunately, Linden Labs originally intended for us, the residents, to evolve a system - but the only way for any such system to work is to have access to the people behind the avatars, and unfortunately for LL, that's them. The way any social system works is accountability. Which means an accessible public section of one's life. You'd sure as hell want someone to target directlt if the next can of Coke you open had glass shards in it. No one's talking about broadcasting your ACTUAL private information, but an agreed upon official body through which valid claims can be processed. You don't want that? Don't take action in public sectors, and SL, like the internet, IS a public sector - it is a place where your words and actions can impact other people. You want to say or do something you hold to be important and someone doesn't like it? It's the measure of your dedication to that ideal and the consequences of it that give it any validity. An opinion that isn't backed by your skin isn't worth the aether it occupies.

Re: the removal of items. I'm all for it - just sorry it falls on LL's shoulders. I know that if anything I've been selling contains a stolen script, I'll work on fixing it with a new script and replace the item for free to any of my customers - if nothing else, it would put me back on a customer's radar.

As for the Gene Replacement megaprims - they stopped being illegal ages ago - I consulted two Lindens before using them in a build once upon a time. The only thing they suggested was that since they are an artifact of an exploit from ages ago, and not officially supported, they may well stop working at some point, so be forewarned. So I was. If I wake up and the next client build breaks them, then I'll rebuild without them. Easy Peasy.