This is bass-ackwards. You're going about this all wrong. Fail.

This is only going to hurt content creators. This won't even *touch* Linden Lab. I'm tempted to shop my butt off for the next 2 days just to spite this, because all the designers I love need to pay their bills.

Let’s help content creators lose money! That’ll teach LL!

Keep the stores open, upload the day before or after, but do not log in for a full 24 hours, not your mains, not your alts, nothing.
Spend the week before organising meeting places

Plurk
WoW
Yahoo
Twitter

anywhere that you can gather as residents of Second Life that don't log in. There are trials for many games, WoW has one for ten days, so everyone could make a new account if they don't have one and just meet at designated areas.

If WoWs online status went up by 40K and LL's went down by that same number, well that would surely take some notice.

Just a thought..

Put it like this: If you went into a RL business, were unhappy with something and told them you were gonna boycott them along with all your friends and then you and all your friends showed up 2 days later with unspent cash in hands ready to buy, would that really change their minds? Prolly not.

If you're truly committed to standing up and making a statement, then stop spending your L altogether, make this boycott a long-standing thing, because in the end you're no better than the people you accuse of being "whiners," you've just managed to trick yourself into thinking you're doing something important.

The fact is that the Lindens don't care. They have been making from land, and as long as there is land they will be making money (and it is coming from corporation, not from the small seller who rents a 64×64 parcel.
This small seller (and even the big one) are taking the money OUT of Second Life. And LL does not want that… LL wants the money getting IN, not OUT.
If you make a viewer that exploits the system and multiplies your lindes, then they will be coming after you with the SWAT and the FBI, but if you steal a few shapes and objects? no way… they don't give a sh!t.
You who call yourselfs small sellers or big sellers, are just pennies for them, and they don't care about you.
You and your L$10000 inventory (what is that? 25 dollars?) are worth nothing for them.
You should start seeing this video-game as a video-game by now.

So with that said, I can go on to reply to SCDs question, as it ties in:

@ SCD – Easy… Just like some americans are oblivious to the rest of the world, it seems like this group of people here are not taking into consideration that they are only a SMALL sliver of the SL population, so pulling something like this wont work. I feel we are so inside of our so called "in crowd" box, we forget about everyone else and we forget there are thousands of SL users who have never heard about us. So, I made the comparison of how sometimes some Americans are the same way in terms of their place in the world in regards to other countries, etc.

Im not against Artists voice or IP rights at all. But being how only a VERYYYYYYYY small percentage of the SL user base would be even hearing about this "boycott" of sorts, its not going to have any impact on LL. At least in my opinion its not. Does that make sense? Im all for getting LLs attention and pushing them to respect us, but I dont think this will achieve it. What about the other 95% of SL users who will be uploading, building, buying, and selling?

Your education will achive only a shrug and a "And what should I do about it?"

You are addressing the wrong audience, in my opinion, very much like annoying commercials with forbidden fast forward on bought DVDs, which of course are not visible on stolen versions avaiable in the internet.

Sorry I sometimes have difficulties to express myself in english since it is only my third language ;o)

if you want LL to notice you & your cause, you have to get up in their face about it & let them know you won't rest till they do something. and from what i hear, the Lindens are almost always stumped when confronted. take your frustration out on them, not on innocent shop owners.

this idea about closing our stores & encouraging people not to shop at all… sorry, i'd love to support you, but my business can't afford it. i'm sure the bigger shops can do it, but us smaller ones (the majority of sl businesses)…. this is going to kill us. please don't go through with it.

They can't really claim it's not their place to discuss the issues when their office hours relate, for example, to SL architecture, the SL client, the business side of things — all of these things connect to copyright infringement, whether it's various bugs that NeilLife has been exploiting or whether it's generally a matter of policy as it relates to business in SL.

It's true that in general individual Lindens prefer to stick to a very close script. But if everyone there is contributing meaningfully (and respectfully, so you can't be painted as overly-aggressive kooks), it will certainly cause more of a stir than this 48 hour business.

It benefits every content creator in the long run for LL to do a better job at address content theft.

One day of lost sales isn't going to get anyone evicted from their house, nor will their kids starve.

I am for stopping content theft. It harms us all. But this is not the way to do it. Let's think of something else.