I urge everyone reading this to do the same, and check their friends profiles, they'll MOST probably likely discover that they all have payment info.

And people should stop renting stores from malls who refuse to change their access to payment info only.

Also, many people use shop land to hang out on, so they would be in the company of other verified individuals.

This doesnt only have to be limited to shop owners, but land owners as well who host common areas.

Yea, it closes off access to innocent people, but its not hard to submit payment info. And like I said, you may lose some sales and upset people now, but if people really cared about this, in the long run, this is a move worth trying out.

I think payment info on file access to stores is something that will encourage people to submit some form of verification if they want access to content.

There is no denying that the MAJORITY of thieves have blank, unaccountable, profiles.

I think your comment takes this too far.

As Mockba_the_Borg says, it would be a more noticeable protest to have a Cash Out weekend instead. Where everybody cashes in their Lindens. But the only problem with this is that it could bankrupt LL as it could reduce any liquidity they have to pay for their overheads and force them to shut down.

Besides, it's obvious that M Linden's 'master vision' is to get into bed with the Fortune 500 companies. Not by being a company that treats its customers well, but by associating itself with successful brands that DO treat their customers well. I suppose his father doesn't like the idea that his son is the CEO of a game company, working on a product for us lowlife gamers when he could be smoking cigars with the big boys.

I say we protest for Mark Kingon (M Linden) to step down as CEO, it's plain obvious that Philip Rosedale is too scared to fire him.

Feels pretty good. Artist's Voice specifically hijacked another content theft awareness campaign's date with a ridiculously extreme stunt and it backfired on them. This is an object lesson that you should talk to the community you claim to represent and you shouldn't think that being the bull in the china shop will get you any further than ignored if not chastised.

And as to your notion that "no one is forcing anyone to do anything," that's not really true. This protest was designed to force designers to lose money by having people not spend any money in the name of a giant sweeping gesture that, if you stop and think about it, was never going to accomplish it's fuzzy goals.

I don't necessarily think that Step Up's idea of not uploading textures for a day was really that effective a concept, but their message about content theft is getting out there, because they're trying to educate people about it. They know that LL isn't going to suddenly rush in and protect everyone from content theft, that the situation is what it is, but they understand that change starts with education, not blackmail.

And lastly, god this is so tl;dr, you said no one is looking down on us? Go back and read the comments from the initial 5th of November post and see if you can spot the condescension.

that or dont log on for a whole week?
but that be bit hard and crazy hehe

No one is looking down on you because you didn't choose to participate, that's your prerogative, always has been.

But you're kind of an asshole. THAT'S why I'm looking down on you.

In a nutshell, I'm just sort of saddened that everyone decided to finally take a stand today, and then made a conscious decision to undermine each other. I guess the real lesson learned today is not to do anything, because we can't seem to stop the infighting long enough to get anything accomplished. Sad.