Second Life Mogul Challenges Press Freedom

An anonymous reader tipped us to a post on ZDNet about some disturbing freedom of the press issues in Second Life. Content mogul Anshe Chung is filing DMCA complaints with organizations that post screenshots of her content, citing an infringement of copyright. From the article: "The issue has surfaced after the avatar Anshe Chung (real name Ailin Graef) was attacked by animated flying penises during a virtual interview with CNET news, conducted in their Second Life bureau last month. A video of the attack surfaced on YouTube, and was then taken town after Anshe Chung Studios filed a DMCA complaint. The Sydney Morning Herald and the blog BoingBoing have also received similar notices."

Re:Pshaw.

[Vo0k]

Now that's something that won't happen to you in the First Life!

this might be

[gelfling]

The most retarded thing I have ever seen or heard of in my life.

Re:this might be

[truthsearch]

And that's saying a lot considering you have a 4 digit slashdot id.

The shape of things to come

[suv4x4]

...The issue has surfaced after the avatar Anshe Chung (real name Ailin Graef) was attacked by animated flying penises...

In hundred years from now as virtual reality will be everywhere and has become a core part of our lives.

I'm sure old folks will bring back aging memories from real life ... "when I was young, at least you couldn't be attacked by a flock of animated flying penises"...

Remember, your right to free speech ends...

[Anonymous Coward]

...at crying "penis" in a crowded vagina.

Re:Stupid.

[kfg]

People don't seem to realize that freedom of speech is restricted to political views and religion. . .

Which part of "no" don't you understand?

KFG

That was pure freedom.

[Anonymous Coward]

That was a show of pure freedom, as much as the American Founding Fathers could ever have hoped for.

Without even saying a word, whoever arranged for those pink penises to fly around like that managed to challenge anything the Anshe Chung character might have said during the interview. Such a tour de force only happens once or twice a decade. This video will rank up there with the likes of the "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" and the "The Unknown Rebel" photographs.

Re:Stupid.

[kfg]

At least, that's my understanding of it.

Which part of "no" don't you understand?

KFG

Re:this might be

[jb.hl.com]

I'd say the same, even after seeing actual retards.

Re:Ethically valid

[ScrewMaster]

The very idea of a flying penis scares the hell out of me.

Re:Disturbing?

[Anonymous Coward]

I bet that you're not called "uvajed_ekil" in real life either

Even with European alphabets, I bet it's hard to correctly pronounce the underscore.

Re:Ethically valid

[Anonymous Coward]

The very idea of a flying penis scares the hell out of me

And that's coming from someone with ScrewMaster for his handle. /pussy

Re:Ethically valid

[tsm_sf]

True, but the perpetrators violated her reasonable expectation not to be attacked by flying penises in that context.

Are you brand new to the internet or something?

long over due

[Anonymous Coward]

I for one welcome our flying penis overloads

Re:She might have deserved it...

[mccoma]

Too bad we can't spawn massive dicks in real live

Speak for yourself, little man!

you have multiple?!?

Re:Anshe vs Furries

[Arcturax]

Well keep in mind that most furs actually are fairly disgusted with the baby fur crowd and such. Some other other groups, like the 20 breasted vixen taurs, well we just kind of take it as being overly imaginative :) Thing is, the more out there elements are the ones who are the most easily noticed.

I personally haven't really had any problems with SL goons. I actually really enjoy the Second Life Safari. These guys haven't seen anything yet. I've seen some truly out there stuff on SL, and yes, I admit most of it was furry created. Like the giant vore armadillo I made on a lark.

I made a gigantic armadillo that stands halfway to the clouds. This thing has a full digestive system you can go through, including intestinal maze. Whenever I drop it somewhere, people come from all over the sim I'm on to look at it and inevitably, go through it. Within five minutes you will see this thing basically shitting avatars. It's really funny when the rear end loving crowd flies up there to stare at it and gets hit by people falling out of the intestinal maze. I really need to make a vid of this sometime, as it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

I wouldn't mind if the SL people came and made fun of it either. I mean that is why I made it, just for amusement purposes. There's really not point in getting upset over it. Which is what makes this whole Anshe thing so sad.

You know, as easy as SL is to copy people (I've made George Bush, the Shredder from TMNT and others)... someone could make an Anshe look alike and do fucked up things to it just to piss her off. Of course then she will have to trademark her looks, thus banning all Asian women from Second Life forever.

Re:Pshaw.

[metroplex]

Yep. The video and images can also be found here [somethingawful.com], on the original and exclusive coverage of the attack put together by somethingawful.com with material provided by Room101, the originators of the attack.

I personally find somethingawful.com's Second Life Safari pretty hilarious, here [somethingawful.com] are all the episodes so far, for those who missed them.