The Sorry Saga.....

If you don't already know, a few days ago I arrived at one the SL6B sims to find 2 of my photos being used, unlabelled and without my permission or knowledge to promote the PhotoLIFE studio system.

I was a member of the PhotoLIFE group in world and on flickr, and own a PhotoLIFE studio.

These are the pictures in question, nothing special, not for any purpose, just vanity pictures of myself:) I spoke to other PhotoLIFE members at the time and was told they were asked for their pictures and had labelled them accordingly.

I first of all tried the group chat, trying to find a member of staff, however due to timezones there was nobody available.

A few hours later Greg Paslong appeared in the Sim and the chatlogs were posted (edited only to remove extraneous material such as mystitool and my friend yumi talking about the skin she made)

http://shoppingcartdisco.com/?p=2358&cpage=1#comment-33414

The only comment I made was to give Copyright info. At no time was I personal.

http://shoppingcartdisco.com/?p=2390#comments

And then from Ryker Beck :) http://www.rykerbeck.com/douchebaggetry-at-its-finest/comment-page-1/#comment-901

Since then Cherie Parker - PhotoLIFE CP, CEO of something at Opium (linked with Oom) http://bluntfashionsense.blogspot.com/2009/06/read-all-about-it-photolife-trial.html

and here

http://opiumsim.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/read-all-about-it-photolife-trial-by-cherie-parker/#comment-179

Cherie has continued to state that the prim was set for 10L, despite me giving her a long list of people who were actually there and witnessed it at 1000L.

I think thats all for the moment.

Now, I have heard rumours that I had lied, and that I have planned this, I don't see how, Oom has apologised properly and accepted that I have not lied, and all the evidence shows that I am telling the truth.

Now, how can I plan for someone to take my work, upload it, put it on a prim, set it for sale and get him to talk to me in a derogatory manner? and then how can I plan that someone would 'ask me to leave' and 'end all association'

Wow, how machiavellian.

The issue for me was in 3 parts.

My work was taken without permission - breaking TOS and copyright
I was spoken to in a very poor fashion
I was 'asked to leave the group' and given a passive aggressive qualified apology.

I have heard through people I know still in the group that there are jokes in group chat about copyright. I have been offered a resolution from PL, but that involves in me returning to the group - a group that thinks little of IP and has shown me time and time again how little they think of me.

As I have said, I haven't been personal in all this, yet Colleen Criss has attacked me several times, accusing me of being a liar and accusing me of wanting this outcome. I told her that if Greg had apologised at the start, it would have gone away, and if she hadn't kicked me from the group, it would have gone away, but she doesn't believe me. I had nothing to gain by giving this info to SCD. I do not want anything from PL. For the record - 'asked to leave' and 'end all association' is the same as being kicked out.

I have had issues with PL in the past, due to their CS, their CS is marvellous, amazing, incredible - if you are online after 10amslt. If you are on before that however, it is utter garbage. The people who 'offered' to help me in the past could not be available in my timezone - not their fault, but not my fault either. The complaint's I have made to them in the past were legitimate - to offer service to ALL their customers, not just the ones convienent to them.

I have chatlogs, from months and months ago, which I will not post, because it won't do me or them any favours, I want to make it clear that my actions were due to what happened at SL6B - and my subsequent treatment.

I am a paying customer, and I do love my studio, Oom has always been good to me and I accept his apology. Unfortunately I cannot say the same for the 'staff' involved.

Update....

http://bluntfashionsense.blogspot.com/2009/07/if-these-walls-could-talk-challenge-to.html

Now, it seems to me that the apology I recieved is now negated, and it's now my fault that this series of events has occured.

I don't know who is doing their PR but I was stunned when I read this - paying for a review = bribe or at best its a cheap advert. You can't place restrictions on a review.