Names

Unlike the November 23rd public post on this blog, the Kodama no Ki merchants group message about Cryoban contained a list of known copybotters to watch for. Four days later, someone not belonging to the group sent me an IM saying he's received the notecard I made. He said he has been aware of X and Y's copybotting habbits for a while, but that nobody believes him, because they are SIM owners. He also gave me a few more names to add on the list.

Well. I guess that if the notecard is spreading around, it means it's useful. So here is the reworked list of people (and their supporters) banned from Kodama no Ki for having copybotted products, without having done a public apology or effectively proved that the affirmation is wrong. The list was made up from credible reports and my general knowledge. (I have been around since 2007.) This is prior to Cryoban, by the way - the Cryoban script detected only one resident so far, and since I can't make any clear proof he has copybotted, I am keeping his name out of the list for now.

• Acidic Burns (banned & dead), aka Acid Popstar (banned), aka Chester Popstar (banned), aka Thiago Mimiteh (banned) : sculpted prims from Unknownsoldier Maximus, and more. Darknight Low is also known to have worked with Acidic Burns, but I couldn't find anyone else's creations yet in his line of products.
  
• Madisonn Guisse (banned & dead) : sculpted prims from Haruko Fukai ("skirts roupa ninja foda"). The said clothing was worn by Cipo Cale (banned & dead).
• Gwolf Carducci (banned) : textures from Hiroro Mayo.
• Kazuno Yokosuka (banned) : prims from Giorno Brando's big torii.
• mizaki Kytori (banned) : products from Laqroni and Armidi. A resident saw him wandering KNK, inviting customers to his shop.
• Naruto Umia (banned) : copied my friend's clothing and skin under his eyes.
• Phoenix Thor (banned) : boots from Mai Runo, mask(s) from lantern Oyen.
• Sephiroth Lusch (banned) : a whole SIM, lantern Oyen's products, and a tree from Botanical.
• Smithys Dover (banned) : "zack shoulder" from Murgatroyd Zauberflote, worn by a guy named karazhi Arun.
• Tidus Gynoid (banned), aka Tidus Gravois (banned) : skin from togashigenzi Mopp.
  
• Yoruichi Kamachi (banned) : is hosting Phoenix Thor and said she doesn't care about copybot.

I am showing this list out to the public as a proof that I am not banning people out of personal grudge, but rather to encourage honest creators to keep the good work!

P.S.: For your information, the rest of the banlist containts mostly cheaters and their bots.

P.S.II: Be aware that the Lindens seem to be automatically shutting down accounts that use the cloning function from the third party client "testclient", even if it was done on a friend, as a test, with no abuse reports. It happened to someone related to Kodama no Ki. My advice is, if you want to make sure you are not doing a mistake out of curiosity, you should stick with the default client, at least until the Lindens come up with a list of trusted clients and links to download them. Why? Because you can't know everything your third party client is doing. I'm sure one day there will be an issue with one sending passwords somewhere...