RedZone

RedZone is a product out to help determine the alts of people. This could be good. If someone is griefing you, copybotting, rule-breaking, or being generally obnoxious, you could easily ban the person from your land as well as all of their alts. The idea is good, but it's not accurate, and it invades everyone's privacy.

How does it work? A land owner can rez RedZone on their land which then scans avatars. If you've got media and/or music streaming, it will grab your IP and put it into a database. Any other avatars that have used the same IP as you will be tagged as your alts. Someone owning RedZone can check on any resident to see who their 'alts' are.

This is not something you consent to, and you may never know that you're being scanned. The easiest way to stop it is to disable automatically streaming music and media in your preferences.

Not only is there a problem of lack of consent and privacy, but it doesn't really work! There are several reasons for this. First of all, anyone who really wants to be annoying or to copybot is going to change IPs when they make new accounts, and they are unlikely to stream media or music in order to avoid being detected by RedZone. The other problem is that IPs get recycled. Some people get a new IP every time they get online, and that IP could be used by another Second Life resident who may cause a bit of trouble. It's not right to assume the two residents are the same person, and it's not fair if one of them behaves perfectly well and ends up banned at a bunch of locations because someone else caused trouble from the same IP. Then there's the case of family, friends, and public locations. I am not the only person in my household using Second Life. I am sure there are many others who have family or friends in the same home that use Second Life as well. I also have a tendency to log in at school and at the public libraries nearby. Just because other people may sign in at the same IP I once did does not mean we are the same person, or alts of one another.

Also, I don't believe anyone has the right to know anyone else's alt accounts unless the person tells them. If someone keeps their alts a secret, it's that way for a reason! RedZone can be used to stalk and harass other users, and it seems like it does that a whole lot better than it does at protecting land owners from griefers and copybotters.

I read about this JIRA on Forceme Silverspar's blog. Please log into JIRA and vote to ban RedZone!
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-24746?
Here are some other useful blogs about RedZone (such as sims using it, how to avoid it, etc.):
GreenZone
no2redzone