Download Squad

We live in a glorious age where you can sue pretty much anyone for pretty much anything. A wonderful time in which people need to put warning labels on anything and everything to keep people from suing them when they do something stupid. Sorry, but if you need a warning to tell you that a jar of peanuts contains peanuts, you don't really deserve to be breathing anymore. You're part of the problem. This trigger-happy lawsuit fetish seems like it might be finding its way into the happy little universe of Second Life now. Kevin Alderman, who runs the adult-content company Eros LLC filed a lawsuit against a Second Life resident named Volkov Catteneo for copyright infringement. Catteneo allegedly stole an Alderman creation (the ever classy SexGen bed) and is selling it at a greatly reduced price in the virtual world. Alderman also plans to subpoena Second Life operators Linden Labs to obtain Catteneo's real life identity.

Catteneo says he isn't too worried about the suit though since, "I'm not some kind of noob, my name isn't on [Linden Lab's] file. I don't even have a permanent address [in real life] either." Excellent. Suing a virtual world adult content thief who happens to be a hobo in real life sounds like a real profitable undertaking. Good luck with that. And not to wish any ill will towards Alderman, but his Second Life name is easily the creepiest handle in existence. It's physically impossible to cheer for a man who, virtual world or not, refers to himself as "Stroker Serpentine." Shudder. Moral of the story, be careful on Second Life, because apparently you can be sued there to. And by far creepier characters than you'd be sued by in real life.