Dear Mallory

Mallory, I’m honestly disgusted and dismayed that you chose to remove my comment from your flickr page.

I made no accusations against either party but simply stated that Ellettra should get all the facts before judging either party on who has done what.

Yes I did post a link to Hart’s PXL blog, however if you had an issue with this, you could have contacted me directly & request to remove it, which you didn’t do.

I also notice that you’ve chosen to mute me from your flickr stream as well – just so you know, I’m honestly not bothered because yesterday was the first time I had ever visited your flickrstream and its no loss to me now that I can’t view it any longer.

RaC were my first set of high quality skins. My partner at the time bought them for me, & I absolutely adored them. Additionally I purchased your skins for a good friend of mine as well. And when your smokey eye skins were released, I purchased a set of thse those as well.

Additionally, I have also purchased clothing and hair from you in the past – as far as inworld store owners are concerned, I’m a dream customer – I will always pay for quality and support a designer when I feel they offer good quality well made merchandise.

When I first saw Hart’s PXL ‘Crys’ skins I felt that they were original and unique to anything else I had seen at the time and they then became my favourite skins. To this day, I still wear them a lot, along with my other PXL skins that are now part of my wardrobe.

Yes, I freely admit that of the 1000+ skins I have, I wear PXL skins at least 75% (if not more) of my time inworld.

As a long term SL resident, I’ve become familar with the history between you and Hart, and I believe that Hart has genuinely been open with what happened in the days when he first started selling skins – he has acknowledged what he did was wrong and as soon as his wrong doing was brought to his attention he dealt with the situation quite promptly.

However, it seems that you hold a grudge that goes beyond even Hell freezing over.

Now that Hart is slowly (because of LL stuffing up – which is what he has commented on his blog about, there are no comments referring to you or Laqroki) building his store & presence inworld back up, you choose to make the same accusations that you did back in August/September.

Many skin makers out there use the same bases that you use, thats pretty common knowledge – in fact there are a few skin makers out there who’s faces strike extremely similar features to your own, however you have never made an attempt towards them to address the copy infringements you have repeatedly accused Hart of which is predominantly based on the hands and feet of your skins.

You state that you raised a DCMA against Hart back in September, using the evidence that you are now posting in your flickr stream. If the case was ‘dropped’ by Linden Labs, then you are within your entitlements to seek other forms of legal action.

You state that you have in the past wanted to deal with this privately which is a crock because those of us who saw your blog posts have seen your recent flickr image was on your blog post back in August/September.

If it was truly the case that you wanted to deal with this privately then you would be liasing with Hart directly, not invovling the rest of the Secondlife community suggesting over and over again that Hart is continually ripping off your skins.

If you truly feel you have a case and truly want to take action against Hart, then do so, don’t go dragging his name through the mud based on suggestion and accusation alone.

It is tiresome and extremely unprofessional to continue these allegations in public.

I for one, have now decided to boycott all of your creations inworld as I find your behaviour to be anti competitive and unprofessional.

Where I have noticed designers items have been ripped, I will always contact the designer who’s work has been copied and advise them of the situation. You don’t see me notifying the rest of the world about it – its for the direct parties involved to deal with the situation & if they can’t resolve it, then address with with Linden Labs by way of a DCMA and then if you still feel the case hasn’t been resolved take further legal action.

Remove the image or make a case – back up your statements by dealing with this privately or move on, because right now you’re not doing yourself any favours.