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{{Infobox Person 
| name        = Kevin Alderman
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|2003|11|08|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Second Life]], [[United States|U.S.]]
| other_names = Stroker Serpentine
| occupation  = [[Virtual Sex Entrapeneur]]
| profession  = Sex Bed Marketer}}
'''Kevin Alderman''', founder of Eros LLC,  is the creator of the avatar of '''Stroker Serpentine''' in the virtual world of [[Second Life]]. <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==
Alderman, 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 desireability to retain intellectual property rights, Alderman registered a user account in Second Life in November 2003 and created his 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>

Alderman 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>  

In August 2008 Eross LLC received [[USPTO]] [[trademark]] registration number 3,483,253 for "SexGen".

==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 beidentified as 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>

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.virtual products. The suit alleged that Simon was duplicatinged and resellingold various types of content from several different Second Life content creators.<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.⏎


Eros, LLC and Shannon Grei brought forth a class action suit in US District Court in Northern California against Linden Research, INCnc 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 providescopyright and trademark violations within the Second Life service.<ref name="Strokerz Toyz/Eros LLC Takes Linden Lab to Court in Class Action Lawsuit!!!
">[http://foo.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2009/09/strokerz-toyzeros-llc-takes-linden-lab-to-court.html Mistral, Pixeleen: "Strokerz Toyz/Eros LLC Takes Linden Lab to Court in Class Action Lawsuit!!!" Alphaville Herald, September 15, 2009].</ref>.<ref name="PDF e-filing
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* 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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