The impending changes for adult content in Second Life have been part of Rika’s and my considerations for DSN from the beginning on. The Linden Scripting Language (LSL) offers almost no way to reliably verify if the recipient of a DSN item has the right classification. For the time being we saw no other way than to explicitly deny adult samples in the DSN. But not only did creators of adult content kept asking us for ways to participate in DSN, also both Rika and I are agreeing that adult activity is a natural part of SL and should be left to each resident’s own decision.

So we kept looking for a way to offer an adul channel to DSN. I am a bit proud that the final impulse on how to do it came from me, since Rika is a damn sharp knife in the drawer, so finally we found a foolproof method to make sure that a subscriber of the adult channel has in fact all the necessary verifications to make them eligible to receive adult samples. And what better place to test the first prototype of the new adult kiosk than the Adult Verification Test Sims of “Oatmeal”, whose visual were subject to a lot of controversies lately.

How does the new Adult Channel work:

• You need to have full verification status to subscribe to the channel. What exactly are the necessary credentials is still a bit unclear (there are all sorts of info around, some claiming hving “Payment Info Used” is enough), however if you can teleport to Oatmeal 15, SL thinks you are adult enough :-)
• Only kiosks placed on Adult land can sign you up for the Adult channels. Those kiosks will be visually different from the regular DSN kiosks.
• Content creators can continue to use their regular dropboxes – once we throw the switch a new channel will be available to them.
• Old kiosks will continue to work
• A new set of kiosks will be needed to offer signup to the Adult channel. Those kiosks will also function as regular kiosks when rezzed on non-Adult-land

We expect to have the system roll out on Monday, when the Adult changes in SL become official.