DISQUS

Having dealt with my fair share of governmental agencies before, the usual answer for anything they aren't able to confirm something is, "I'm sorry, ma'am, but I can't answer it." Instead, the answer was, "we can't find anything that points to any investigations having occurred into either Linden Labs or Second Life."

The original article that came out regarding an FBI investigation was become a Linden was quoted as having said they contacted the FBI and invited them in to investigate. Later, Robin (I believe it was) publicly stated that there was no investigation by the FBI or any other governmental agency. But by then, the original story had already caught on and nobody bothered to go and correct it. I belive Adam Reuters did print her quote saying no investigation occurred.

So all this time, everyone was thinking there was an investigation and Robin was just trying to cover it up. As it turns out, she was telling the truth.

I called the FBI.
There was NO investigation into SL.
They were never here.

Call them yourself to back it up. I couldn't even get a name from the guy, other than "Duty Agent."

Something else to consider is the fact that many of the poker players do NOT spend RL money to get lindens to play. They have jobs in SL, such as building, scripting, land management, renting apartments to others, stock trading, and the list goes on. This is what makes us different from other online gambling agencies. In those, there was only one way to get chips to play and that was to pay for them. Here, that just is not the case.

I work in one of the casinos. Half of the people that play don't even have payment info on file. They aren't buying lindens, nor selling them.

The U.S. governmment feels this compelling need to advance their micromanaging of our lives from real life, into our fantasy lives as well. They need to stop.

Gracie