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 {{Infobox Person 
| name        = Stroker Serpentine
| image       = Effigy_2_043.png| 180px  
| real_name = Kevin Alderman
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|2003|11|08|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Second Life]], [[United States|U.S.]]
| other_names = The Mullet, The Serpentine
| occupation  = [[Virtual Sex Entrapeneur]]
| profession  = Sex Bed Marketer}}
'''Kevin Alderman''' is theStroker Serpentine, founder of Eros, LLC,  is the avatar  of Kevin Algerman in the virtual world of [[Second Life]] where he participates as the avatar Stroker Serpentine. <ref name="Wired07">[http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/sexdrive/2007/03/sex_drive0330 Lynn, Regina: "Stroker Serpentine, Second Life's Porn Mogul, Speaks" Wired, March 3, 2007]</ref>

==History==
AldermanStroker, originally a plumbing contractor in the real world, first created a presence in the adult-only [[virtual world]] of Seducity as "Str<->ker". Motivated by the sale of virtual goods between residents and the desire to retain intellectual property rights, AldermanStroker registered a user account in Second Life in November 2003 and created his "Stroker Serpentine" avatar.

Strokerz Toyz  still operates as an outlet for adult virtual animation devices within [[Second Life]].<ref name="successful">[http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/commentary/sexdrive/2006/08/71657 Lynn, Regina: "Second Life Gets Sexier" Wired, August 25, 2006].</ref>

 
AldermanStroker later listed his Amsterdam simulator in March 2007 on Ebay for a sum of $50,000.<ref name="amsterdam">[http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/ebusiness/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198700237 Wagner, Mitch: "Second Life Sex Business Sells On eBay For $50,000" InformationWeek, March 27, 2007] </ref> The Amsterdam sim was purchased by 3dutch.com (a division of Netherlands-based media company Boom BV). The sale made international headlines as the first publicly sold virtual world only properties sold on Ebay. 3dutch.com utilizes the simulator as an online social network and cooperative marketing medium for their established web presences.

In August 2008 AldermanEross LLC received [[USPTO]] [[trademark]] registration number 3,483,253 for "SexGen". This registration is regarded as the first ever trademark granted to cover a line of virtual products only available in a virtual world.

==Legal Action==
Near the weekend of July 4, 2007, Alderman's company Eros LLC filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against a Second Life avatar named  Volkov Catteno, temporarily named "[[John Doe]]" in court documents, for copying and reselling his virtual SexGen beds. Through several [[subpoenas]] served to [[Linden Lab]], [[Paypal]], [[AT&T]] and [[Charter Communications]],  Volkov Catteno  was named to be Robert Leatherwood of Azle, Texas.<ref name="catteneo">[http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article2025713.ece Richards, Jonathan: "Second Life sex bed spawns virtual copyright action" TimesOnline, July 4, 2007] </ref>

Leatherwood did not respond to the [[copyright infringement]] complaint within the allotted 20 days, during which time Alderman was able to persuade the court that selling virtual goods for Lindens, a convertible digital currency, does constitute a "use in commerce". A default judgment was entered against Leatherwood pursuant to Chapter VII of the [[Federal Rules of Civil Procedure]]. The international legal community characterized this lawsuit as an "Avatar vs. Avatar" [[litigation]].⏎
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Later that same year in October 2007, Alderman spearheaded a six-person lawsuit against New York native Thomas Simon (aka  Raze Kenzo  in Second Life) for unauthorized copying, resale, and distribution of the platintiffs' intellectual properties. Simon was duplicating and reselling<ref name="Kenzo">[http://www.nypost.com/seven/10282007/news/regionalnews/unreality_byte.htm Boniello, KathiAnne: "UNREALITY BYTE$" New York Post, October 28, 2007] </ref> various types of content from several different Second Life content creators.


Kevin Alderman's company Eros, LLC and Shannon Grei brought forth a class action suit in US District Court in Northern California against Linden Research, INC on September 15, 2009 (Case4:09-cv-04269-PJH). Court papers allege the defendants knowingly and profitably turned a blind's eye to intellectual propery rights violations by some of the users of the services it provides.<ref name="Strokerz Toyz/Eros LLC Takes Linden Lab to Court in Class Action Lawsuit!!!
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The OhMiBod interface has since been abandoned for use in Second Life due to aggressive enforcement <ref name="OhMiBodpatent">[http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080504/0006061024.shtml Masnick, Mike "Who Says Patent Lawsuits Aren't Sexy" Techdirt, May 9, 2008]</ref> of the broad [[teledildonics]] patent.

===Motion Capture===

AldermanStroker expanded his interests in virtual world development by founding StroCap Studios in 2007 as a subsidiary of Eros LLC. By combining the resources of StroCap and Motionwerx, Alderman utilizes innovative gyroscopic inertial systems<ref name="mocap">[http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/05/second-lifes-st.html Feldman, Curt "Second Life's Stroker Serpentine Bringing MoCap to the Real World" , Virtual World News, May 9, 2008] </ref> and [[motion capture]] optical systems to (contracted; show full)
* Duanske, Benjamin:[http://virtuallyblind.com/2008/03/14/leatherwood-settlement/ Eros Reaches Settlement with Robert Leatherwood] Virtually Blind, March 14, 2008 <!--Accessed April 29, 2009-->

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