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What Facebook ToS Change Means For Developers
By Dan Morrill
Expert Author
Article Date: 2007-08-01
Facebook pulled the wildly popular music sharing Audio one week after it changed its terms of service.
While this is a good for Facebook, it does put limits on what developers can put up as an application.
Venture Beat points out: The move is significant for two reasons. It shows Facebook is taking a harder line on third-party developers using its site in ways that could be considered illegal. It also shows that Facebook may be giving developers a smaller window to mend their ways - Facebook updated its terms of service for developers on July 25, and notified Audio at that time that it was in violation. It pulled Audio last night - less than a week later. Source: Venture Beat Like most other applications and platforms that allow people to share other people's works, specifically copyrighted works, the necessity of some actions while problematic for companies that make the programs, means that users will simply move on to something else.
File sharing has been around for a long time now, no equitable solutions have been forthcoming from anyone on how best to handle or manage file sharing.
This poverty of solutions, and reactions rather than coming up with some form of solution that works for everyone is getting more and more necessary.
While Facebook does one thing, and Google starts working on their at point of upload solutions, MySpace has their solution to the same issue, what is really going to work in society when it comes to media streaming.
We find that people are going to do what they think they can get away with.
Do away with uploading of copyrighted content to one site; it just goes to another site.
We have seen this process time and time again, a never ending war, maybe it is time for everyone who is interested to sit down and figure out what is going to be the best way to manage the whole process.
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About the Author:
Dan Morrill has been in the information security field for 18 years, both
civilian and military, and is currently working on his Doctor of Management.
Dan shares his insights on the important security issues of today through
his blog, Managing
Intellectual Property & IT Security, and is an active participant in the
ITtoolbox blogging community.
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