Twinity users are experiencing a bit of lawyerly inconvenience according to virtual world blogger
Tateru Nino. Portions of the
Metaversum GmbH sim have been taken offline for unspecified reasons, and
Nino speculates that "someone's team of undead zombie lawyers woke up and started asserting intellectual property rights and licensing restrictions."
The
Twinity project makes use of both Google Maps and 3-D data to recreate cities like Singapore, London, Miami, and New York, but patrons will need to put their online party plans on hold for the time being.
Twinity's dev team posted a cryptic explanation, along with its intent to "try to reactivate the cities in the future."
