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This week,
Linden Lab announced that it was going to start charging listing fees and minimum commissions on its
Second Life Xstreet Web-shopping adjunct in the near future. Within hours, vendors took down thousands of products, many abandoning the service entirely in favor of alternative services.
It's unclear just how many vendors have abandoned the
Xstreet SL system, but it apparently was enough to temporarily overload the Web-sites of third-party sites such as
Slapt.
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