Ce papier résume assez bien la situation, et prend en flagrant délit de désinformation des journaux pourtant "prestigieux" :

Like a push-up bra, Linden's trick is as effective as it is because the press really, really wants to believe:

Professional journalists wrote those sentences. They work for newspapers and magazines that employ (or used to employ) fact-checkers. Yet here they are, supplementing Linden's meager PR budget by telling their readers that Residents measures something it actually doesn't.

Bref, Second Life, à mes yeux, ressemble de plus en plus à une escroquerie (pour ceux qui financent Linden Labs) over-hypée. Toute la question est de savoir quand tout ça va imploser. Hors de question de rater le spectacle...