The term "Copybot" originally emerged in 2006. It began not as a malicious viewer, but as a debugging tool developed by libsecondlife (now libopenmetaverse). The original program was a text-based client designed to test how the Second Life server transmitted object data to the user's computer. It quickly became apparent that if a computer can see an object in a virtual space, it must download that object's data.
: Because the raw data already sits in your computer's temporary memory, the copybot program lets you hit "Export" to save the raw 3D mesh files or texture maps directly to your hard drive. Second Life Copybot Viewer 55
A copybot viewer is a modified version of the Second Life viewer or Third-Party Viewer (TPV) code. Unlike standard viewers like Firestorm, copybot viewers include scripts or features that: The term "Copybot" originally emerged in 2006
Utilizing more complex, textured objects makes the raw captured data less useful, as it is harder to re-texture properly. It quickly became apparent that if a computer