Controversy caused by monster prims

A listing on Slexchange I found seems to be igniting a Secondlife controversy; in fact several.

How can a simple prime cause a controversy, you ask? First is the question of ownership by the person who has them listed on slexchange. Apparently that person is not the creator…. But has permission to sale them by the banned creator. Leading to speculation the lister and the banned creator could be one and the same, but apparently these prims were given away free by the creator.

What are these prims? They are giant oversized prims…. And by giant I mean really huge…. They are as large as 65535 x 65535 x 0.01. Now tell me that is not a monster prim. The person who has them for sale on SLX, Round Ball, has 13 prims for 500 lindens, but if you search deeper for oversized prims you will find 15 for free. I am not sure of all the sizes but the other 12 listed by Round Ball are 0.1 x 10 x 50, 1.75 x 7.25 x 40, 20 x 20 x 0.5, 20 x 20 x 60, 32 x 32 x 40, 40 x 40 x 40, 50 x 50 x 50, 100 x 100 x 0.01, 150 x 150 x 150, 256 x 256 x 1, 256 x 256 x 256, and 1024 x 1024 x 0.01.

Now we must dive into the question of legality. Are these oversized prims legal? They were apparently created using a recently patched exploit to the Second Life client. There seems to be a debate over whether they affect the performance of a sim. According to Round Ball, “From a technical standpoint, it’s absolutely impossible for these prims to cause sim instability.” But Robin Linden states in answer to a post in the forum ( http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=149530 ) “The problem with mega-prims is they can affect the performance of a sim, meaning that one person’s use can affect multiple Residents. Consequently, we are thinking the best action to take is the following:

1,2) Mega-prims will be allowed on estates where one person is responsible (islands)
3) They are likely to be made illegal on the mainland
4) Not yet. (Banned)”

The above statement seems to contradict Phoenix Linden. Who states in Linden Answers that “existing prims won’t be subject to scaling constraints in order to preserve existing content.”

Therefore I am not going to try to tell you to use or not use these huge prims. I just know that one would of these prims would come in mighty handy in blocking the view of that ugly airport next to my art gallery.