I was going through the Second Life Blogosphere when a particular issue caught my attention.我是经历第二次生命的博客时，某一问题引起我的注意。 That issue is about Stolen Skins (or textures).这个问题是关于被盗皮（或纹理） 。 Texture (skins are just textures) theft has always been a big problem in Second Life and many designers, specially the popular ones, have had their textures stolen and sold at very low prices.纹理（皮只是纹理）盗窃，一直是一个很大的问题，在第二次的生命和很多设计师，特别是热门，有他们的纹理，被盗和出售以非常低的价格。 This is very unfair for the designers because creating an original texture, specially an original skin, is a very difficult process.这是非常不公平的设计师，因为创造一个原始的纹理，特别是原来的皮肤，是一个非常艰难的过程。 I know how hard it is because I tried creating my own skin once.我知道该怎么努力，这是因为我试图创造自己的皮肤一旦。 That is why I understand why Skins in Second Life, specially the good ones, cost so much.这就是为什么我明白为什么皮肤在第二生命，特别是好的，成本这么多。

The Unfortunate Truth不幸的真相

So, you’ve finally created your own original Skin and it was so good that it became popular, you became popular.所以，您终于创造了自己原来的皮肤，这是那么好，它成为广受欢迎，你成为受欢迎的。 While you were enjoying your new found fame and fortune you received news that your amazing and original skin was stolen and now being sold by someone other than you.当您享受您的新发现的名气和财富您收到的消息，您的了不起的和原来的皮肤被人偷去，现在正在出售的其他人比你。 You were shocked, surprised and then later mad at the thought that someone has stolen your creation.你对此感到震惊，感到惊讶和后来疯牛病在以为有人偷你的作品。 In your confusion and anger, you asked yourself how it was stolen.在您的混乱和愤怒，你问它是怎么被盗。

Sad to say my friend, stealing a texture, specially a skin or any clothing texture, is as easy as downloading and installing Second Life itself.很可惜，说我的朋友，偷窃的纹理，特别是皮肤或任何衣物的质地，一样容易下载并安装第二次生命本身。 Using a third party Second Life client, you can easily dump or download all the texture on a target avatar into your computer’s hard drive and that means skins and clothing textures.使用第三方党的第二生命客户端，您可以轻松地突降或下载所有的纹理对目标化身到您计算机的硬盘驱动器，即皮肤和服装的质地。 You’ll get both the baked and actual .TGA files.您将获得双方烤和实际。的TGA文件。 See how easy it is to steal someone else’s hardwork?看到它是如何的方便，窃取别人的努力呢？

A thief can just buy an original skin then download it easily.一个小偷，可以只购买一个原来的皮肤，然后下载它很容易。 Actually, they don’t have to spend anything because they can always download the DEMO versions of the skin then just remove all the watermarks and then upload it and sell it as theirs.其实，他们不须花费任何东西，因为他们随时可以下载演示版本的皮肤然后，只需删除所有水印和然后将它上传和出售它作为他们的。

As far as textures are concern, no one is safe and that is your Unfortunate Truth!据纹理的关注，没有人是安全的，这是您的不幸的真理！

A Hard War To Win硬战争打赢

It is a hard war to win and only Linden Labs, the developer of Second Life, can do something about it.这是一个很难赢得战争，只有林登实验室，开发第二生命，可以做一些工作。 Linden Labs must developed new measures to protect their creators and combat this practice permanently.林登实验室必须制定新的措施来保护他们的创作者和打击这种做法，永久。 What those measures are?这些措施是什么呢？ I honestly don’t know but we can do our part by voting for Stopping texture theft and stop spreading of stolen items at jira.secondlife.com.老实说，我不知道，但我们可以做我们的一部分，用投票方式为阻止纹理盗窃及停止蔓延，失窃的物品在jira.secondlife.com 。

Anyway, as long as there are ways to dump textures into your hard drive (actually they’re already there even with the regular client) and there are no extreme measures that will deter texture theft, or make texture thieves stop and think twice, then winning this war against texture theft is almost an impossibility.无论如何，只要有办法转储纹理到您的硬盘驱动器（其实他们已经有，甚至与定期客户端）和有没有极端的措施，这将阻止纹理盗窃，或使纹理小偷停止并三思，然后打赢这场战争对纹理盗窃几乎是不可能的事。

Residents Fight Back居民反击

Concern residents are taking the matters into their own hands.关注居民正在事项掌握在自己手中。 See the photo below, residents have started to protest inside and outside the shops of suspected skin texture thieves.看照片下面，居民已经开始，以抗议内外商店怀疑皮肤纹理小偷。 Unfortunately, an in-world protest can only do as much without violating Second Life’s own Terms of Use.不幸的是，一个在世界的抗议，只能做多不违反第二生命本身的使用条款。 In fact, acts like these can also be classified as a form of harassment or grieving since, admit it or not, the suspect still has rights but what else can anyone do?事实上，在行为一样，这些也可以被归类为一种形式的骚扰或悲痛的，因为承认或不，该名疑犯仍然有权利，但还有什么其他任何人都可以做什么呢？ Filing a DMCA complaint against the offender takes a lot of time and sometimes they’ll just take the shop down only to open a new one somewhere else.提交申诉对罪犯采取了大量的时间和他们有时会只是采取店下来，只开放一个新的地方。

Photo is from Ornamental Life照片是从观赏的生活

I guess for now, while there is no clear solution to the problem, residents should stay vigilant and should continuously inform the general Second Life populace about these offenders.我猜想现在，虽然没有明确的解决问题，居民应保持警觉，并要不断告知大会第二次生命，民众对这些罪犯。 For example, FabFree’s post on the issue contains steps on how to vote for Stopping texture theft and stop spreading of stolen items at jira.secondlife.com.举例来说， fabfree的职位就这个问题包含的步骤关于如何投票为阻止纹理盗窃及停止蔓延，失窃的物品在jira.secondlife.com 。 Other Second Life resident owned blogs that blogged about the issue are:其他第二生命驻地国有博客日志中对这个问题是：

• Second Arts 第二届文化艺术
• Fabulously Free fabulously免费
• Style Your Destiny 作风您的命运
• Essence of SL 的本质，二○ ○
• Subtle Submission 微妙的意见书
• and there are others more…并有其他更多信息…

Something must be done because if not content creators may stop creating new and original content which will leave us with recycled, stolen and highly saturated items and objects in-world.必须采取某种行动，因为如果没有内容创作者可能会停止创造新的和原始内容，其中将离开我们与再造，被盗和高度饱和的项目和对象，在世界的。 This is not limited to texture and skin makers.这不仅限于皮肤纹理和决策者。 This concerns all content creators in Second Life.这涉及到的所有内容创作者在第二生命。 Their creation, your creation, must be protected against those that profit from the hardworks of others.他们的创作，你的作品，必须受到保护，对那些利润从hardworks他人。 Vote for Stopping texture theft and stop spreading of stolen items in Second Life today!投票为阻止纹理盗窃及停止蔓延，失窃的物品在今天的第二生命！