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'''Kevin Alderman''' is the founder of Eros, LLC. He is also known for his work on intellectual property rights and for his work on intellectual property theft in virtual environments - mainly in the virtual world of Second Life, where he operates as the avatar "Stroker Serpentine". Serpentine is arguably Second Life's most prominent cybersex mogul. More recently, Alderman has begun development of his own 3D virtual world, Eros3D. All of the Eros3D content will be designed by professionals to be as user-friendly as possible. It boasts to not only compete with, but exceed, the Second Life virtual world in not only rendering capabilities but expandability and usability.

Alderman worked for many years as a contract plumber by day and dabbled in virtual sex worlds like SeduCity, a two-dimensional graphical interface, by night until discovering Second Life in November of 2003 and creating his avatar. Alderman's avatar, "Stroker Serpentine" began by selling virtual sunglasses in a tiny kiosk and eventually moved on to digital sex objects, starting with the SexGen bed and moving on to other things, like sex showers and even as far as sex toilets. Alderman purchased a Second Life server area, called a "Sim", named it "Amsterdam" and turned it into one of the hottest digital sex areas in Second Life, complete with shopping and plenty of digital prostitutes. Alderman sold the Second Life "Amsterdam" sim, a visual reproduction of the famed city including red light district, in March 2007 on Ebay for a sum of $50,000. The Amsterdam sim, was sold to 3dutch.com (a division of Netherlands-based media company Boom BV). The sale made national headlines.

Later that same year in October, Alderman led a six-person lawsuit against New York native Thomas Simon (aka "Raze Kenzo" in Second Life) for unauthorized copying, resale, and general distribution of the platintiff's intellectual property. Simon was reselling various types of content from several different Second Life creators. The Honorable Judge Townes from the East District of New York had the cases' settlement include the stipulations that Simon pay any monetary gain back to the plaintiffs, that he make his Pay Pal and Second Life transaction logs available to the plaintiff's attorney, and that Simon will notify the plaintiffs of any new alternate names or accounts he uses in the virtual world of Second Life.

Near the weekend of July 4th, 2008, Alderman spearheaded yet another 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. Leatherwood did not respond to the copyright and trademark infringement complaint within the allotted 20 days, during which time Alderman was able to persuade the court that selling virtual goods for Lindens, an in-game currency which converts out to United States Dollars or the Euro, does constitute a "use in commerce". A default judgement was entered against Leatherman pursuant to Chapter VII of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Rules_of_Civil_Procedure Federal Rules of Civil Procedure].  




==External links==
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'''Kevin Alderman on the Web'''<br>
*[http://www.linkedin.com/in/strokerserpentine Kevin Alderman on Linked In]
*[http://www.youtube.com/user/gatorbyte99 Kevin Alderman's Youtube Channel]
*[http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/members/stroker+serpentine.html Stroker Serpentine on the SLUniverse.com Forums]

'''Kevin Alderman & Articles on Stroker Serpentine'''<br>
*Bland, Archie: [http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/cybersex-rules-inside-the-world-of-lsquoteledildonics-1027699.html Cybersex rules: Inside the world of Teledildonics] The Independent, November 23, 2008 <!--Accessed May 6, 2009-->
*Kirby, Carrie: [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/27/BUH0172A42.DTL&hw=Kevin+Alderman&sn=001&sc=1000 Avatars, attorneys in new world of virtual law] The San Francisco Chronicle, April 27, 2009. <!--Accessed May 6, 2009-->
*MacMillan, Douglas: [http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/04/0416_richlist/source/8.htm Second Life Rich List] Businessweek.com, July 7, 2007 <!--Accessed April 26, 2009-->
*Lynn, Regina: [http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/sexdrive/2007/03/sex_drive0330 Stroker Serpentine, Second Life's Porn Mogul, Speaks] March 30, 2007 <!--Accessed April 26, 2009-->
*Money, Moo: [http://www.massively.com/2008/03/16/cinemassively-stroker-serpentine-interview/ Cinemassively: Stroker Serpentine Interview] Massively.com, March 16, 2008 <!--Accessed April 26, 2009-->
*Smith, Tracey:[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruMi3MAGkvc Virtual Sex in Second Life] CBS News, March 10, 2008 <!--Accessed April 26, 2009-->
*McCarthy, Caroline: [http://news.cnet.com/2300-1026_3-6204587-2.html?tag=ne.gall.pg Strokerz Ball 2007] CNET.com, August 27, 2007 <!--Accessed April 26, 2009-->
*Panganiban, Rik: [http://www.rikomatic.com/blog/2008/09/what-happens-at.html What happens at Strokerz Ball stays at Strokerz Ball (not really)] Rikomatic.com, September 7, 2008 <!--Accessed April 26, 2009-->
*Sowers, Lloyd:[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcDCtSXfz-8&feature=PlayList&p=43F21AB05D5E1396&index=6 Second Life Animator - Interview with Kevin Alderman] Fox 13 News Tampa, FL March 14, 2008 <!--Accessed April 26, 2009-->
*Fullerton, Ticky:[http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/special_eds/20070319/ Four Corners] and [http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2007/s1876134.htm Four Corners Transcript] Australian Broadcasting Company, March 19, 2007 <!--Accessed April 26, 2009-->
*Starwood, Cider:[http://www.ivillagegno.com/2006/12/meet_stroker_serpentine_on_the.php Meet Stroker] Ivillage Girl's Night Out, December 21, 2006 <!--Accessed April 26, 2009-->
*Ludlow, Peter: [http://www.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2007/04/sin_under_flori.html Sin Under Florida Sun] The Second Life Herald, April 30, 2007 <!--Accessed April 26, 2009-->
*Wagner, Mitch: [http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198700237 SL Sex Sim Sells] Information Week, March 27, 2007 <!--Accessed April 26, 2009-->
*Dotinga, Randy: [http://blog.wired.com/sex/2007/03/second_lifes_am.html Second Life's Amsterdam Snapped Up on Ebay] Wired.com, March 26, 2007 <!--Accessed April 26, 2009-->
*O'Hear, Steve:[http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=125 Amsterdam sold for $50,000] ZDNet.com, March 30, 2007 <!--Accessed April 26, 2009-->
*Nino, Tateru:[http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/2006/12/15/spotlight-amsterdam/ Spotlight - Amsterdam] Second Life Insider, December 15, 2007 <!--Accessed April 26, 2009-->
*Reuters, Eric:[http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2007/06/20/amsterdam-sims-re-sold-to-dutch-media-firm/ Second Life Amsterdam Re-Sold to Dutch Media Firm] Reuters Second Life News Center, June 20, 2007 <!--Accessed April 26, 2009-->
*Duranske, Benjamin:[http://virtuallyblind.com/2007/10/27/content-creators-sue-rase-kenzo/ Content Creators Sue Rase Kenzo] Virtually Blind, October 27, 2007 <!--Accessed April 29, 2009-->
*Duanske, Benjamin:[http://virtuallyblind.com/2008/03/14/leatherwood-settlement/ Eros Reaches Settlement with Robert Leatherwood] Virtually Blind, March 14th, 2008 <!--Accessed April 29, 2009-->