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Re: Facebook: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit

edsion007 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:53:19 -0000

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Re: Facebook: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit

charles fugitt — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:25:21 -0000

You two face bast take my name of your site are I well put your name and all I know about you on goggle,my friend.charles fugitt

Re: Facebook: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit

air jordan — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:18:57 -0000

yup, that is true, people just share their info with each other, you say yes to those who intends to upload the info when you add your info to twitter. BTW, please make sure your content is true.

Re: Facebook: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit

chiropractors marketing — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:28:08 -0000

Well before signing up to anything we must simply read and study the rules and regulations , this is very important for us to understand more about their policies and things to do if we had done a mischief action, I admit facebook is one of the most effective ways to drive traffic to your site.

Re: Facebook: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit

Anita — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:07:57 -0000

Thank you for pointing it out. I don't like it at all! Let us know what we can do to insist on this being corrected. What we post needs to be ours. Facebook may have the right to store it, if needed, but they don't have a right to use it for whatever they want!

Re: Facebook: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit

Kimmy Sacony — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:59:40 -0000

This is gonna be obsolete.....soon

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Matt — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:59:30 -0000

Yeah but that is how social media goes. You are getting to marketing yourself for free.

Re: Facebook: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit

bradleyf81 — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:23:09 -0000

This is exactly what I was wondering about. It's somewhat acceptable to me that if I publish content directly on Facebook, or upload photos directly to Facebook, that they have some sort of shared control over it. That they completely and totally own it with no way for me to retrieve it is a little rough though. But, what worried me the most is the question of whether or not they think they own my blog entries too.

Re: Facebook: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit

bradleyf81 — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:19:46 -0000

That sounds really shady. In fact, that sort of thing wouldn't go over well with a "RL" company. It's as if they tricked him into accepting their TOS, so they wouldn't have to remove the photo.

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bradleyf81 — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:17:34 -0000

This comment is priceless... "instead of acting like we are joining the Borg,"

Re: Facebook: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit

scott sanderson — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:36:26 -0000

There is no possible way that any facet of FACEBOOK could ever utilize our words to there full potential.. Even IF I am quoted, I know that I FOR ONE.. Have NO fear.. My words are far beyond any ownership.......... I'll simply state them else where ... - Scott A. Sanderson

Re: Facebook: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit

janice — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:12:06 -0000

hello! why r we suprised? they don't care about peoples rights....they, the (Gov..ect) whoever. 'big brother helps them out...they can get almost any info about us that they want. we lost our rights long time ago...fight back, sure. but in the end they still win.

Re: Facebook: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit

Anton — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:03:24 -0000

The fact is, that if they make changes to their TOS they should give us the opportunity to opt out of their service, if we dont agree with the change.

But they probably covered their asses about that right at the beginning.

They keep credit card details which by the way is not collected via https <-- I'm not a boffin but I'm sure this is not very secure...

Cheers guys, not using facebook again.

Re: Facebook: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit

coffee — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:53:54 -0000

now i'm glad i have stayed away from Facebook

Re: Facebook: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit

Mario — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:50:41 -0000

I think that unless you are someone with so much importance, you don't really need to worry about this TSO change. After all, it's just mundane stuff you share!

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tediber — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:03:02 -0000

crappy facebook..if it is not because of PETSOC i wouldn't really sign myself there.

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kva — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:03:10 -0000

What are they going to do with all of our stuff in their site ?

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Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:33:19 -0000

Amen to that.
Then the record companies will go after them for storing the content.

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Dave — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:30:23 -0000

If Facebook is taking the right to use anything that is published on its
service, then are they also taking on the copyright infringement lawsuits of
people who never authorized their content to be published in the first place?
Why not dump a bunch of Warez, stolen music, pirated videos, links to P2P
sites, etc all over here and let Facebook have all the ownership they want of
a bunch of stolen property? Possession of stolen property is a crime - if
stolen content is published, and Facebook automagically takes ownership of it
then how can they not be held liable for the illegal possession and/or
distribution of that content?

Re: Facebook: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit

George — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:05:09 -0000

They pulled this nonsense when they allowed members' purchases to be shared
with others without their knowledge or consent. After people made a fuss, then
they said 'sorry' and offered an opt-out. They are taking advantage of their
members' unsuspecting vulnerabilites once again. They don't care. They figure
do whatever they want until people make a fuss. All they have to do - is say
'sorry' and offer an opt-out. Until then...they'll do whatever they hell they
feel like.

Re: Facebook: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit

Sending Anonymous Email — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:01:52 -0000

You have to be self aware and protect yourself online. Many people understand
the need to have an alter ego online. Some of the social networks are a
little more than intrusive.

You owe FB nothing. Take a stance and hit delete.

Re: Facebook: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit

Michael Rice — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:00:03 -0000

What's the big deal? I'm pretty sure it was your choice to sign up to Facebook.

Re: Facebook: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit

Jessica — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:44:57 -0000

I think there are two different camps here, the private people who use Facebook for fun, family and community - and the professional people such as artists who use Facebook to showcase their work and make networking connections. Private people don't usually care about who claims ownership of their stuff when they upload it, they don't loose anything and their perfectly happy to share whatever they upload. And that's fine.

Professional's have DEEP concern about copyright issues, most pro artists DON'T behave the way other's do, we don't download music & movies illegally and we don't assume everything on the internet is free. We have an understanding of copyright laws and what it actually means to spend hours, days and months to create something original and have it stolen from you by people who don't give you any credit and in a way that doesn't benefit you financially. The mind-set that "everything on the internet is free use, and if you don't like it, don't upload shit and don't complain if someone steals your stuff" is completely retarded; although I can understand it (it's very easy to assume something doesn't matter if it doesn't affect you). However if you just take a moment and actually imagine what the internet would be like if artists of all kinds decided to take on that advice, and didn't upload anything they weren't willing to give away for freeâ€¦ what would the internet actually be like?

Would you be able to enjoy looking at amazing artwork on websites like DeviantArt, or ConceptArts, or CGSociety, would you be able to learn for free directly from the masters you admire through the work they share on sites like that? Would you be able to hop through MySpace profiles listening to music from fringe, indie and alternative bands, finding new favorites? Would you be able to enjoy all kinds of content on YouTube, put there by proâ€™s who want to reach new audiences?

No, youâ€™d have to buy the books, DVDâ€™s, CDâ€™s or simply never, ever be exposed to it.

Iâ€™m old enough o remember what it was like before the internet, and to look at something that interested me Iâ€™d have to watch TV, go to the library or buy magazinesâ€¦ and even then I had an extremely limited selection. Now, I have an unlimited mind-boggling access to the entire world, I learn something new everyday, I see something amazing everyday.

The internet is an incredible tool for learning and discovering new things, seeing amazing things youâ€™d never otherwise see. But if you treat it with disrespect as if itâ€™s some right that you can shit all over and the people who provide all of that amazing content should just suck it up and be grateful to youâ€¦. It will eventually go away. Artists are already pulling their work from public venues; artwork is now being covered by big ugly watermarks that stop you really being able to look at it, all because of the attitude â€œif itâ€™s on the internet, itâ€™s freeâ€.

I really wish that those of you who think like this, and who respond that the only solution for people who â€œwhineâ€ about copyright, and their work being stolen is for them to â€œnot uploadâ€ what they want to keep would think about what their actually saying, and how unreasonable their being. If no one who created things uploaded them, can you imagine how boring the internet would be? And what about people who are trying to get jobs and become â€œknownâ€ in their fields? What opportunity will they have if they canâ€™t upload their work to showcase to prospective employers? I often speak about artwork because Iâ€™m directly in that world, and you who arenâ€™t have no frikken CLUE how hard it is to be noticed and become successfulâ€¦ if it wasnâ€™t for being able to have galleries online, most artists would struggle to be â€œdiscoveredâ€.

I really wish that people would think about the implications of a situation beyond how it affects them and actually give a damn. There isnâ€™t anything wrong with caring, and doing something about what you care about IS valuable and it DOES change things. The apathetic stupid attitude of â€œdoesnâ€™t affect me, I donâ€™t careâ€ is destroying so many things, that saying is very true, and I wish people would have the integrity and determination to care about things around them, no matter how it affects them â€“ â€˜The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothingâ€

Re: Facebook: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit

bigremo — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:18:59 -0000

To all those people who say "well, the record companies have stuff stolen from them, so it's okay for FB to steal from us." Uh, you folks do realize that the record companies employ thousands of lawyers to crush people who steal their content? They don't simply "let" people steal their stuff. and, regardless that people do it, it is still stealing. Shall we legalize murder just because people do it anyway? At best, you acknowledge and confirm that FB is stealing from us, but you want to let them do it. Hey, if you want to bend over, that's fine. I hope we get to see your face used in an Erectile Dysfunction or STD advertisement or maybe in a recruiting video for the KKK or the Nazis. For me, the web is too large to bother with a backstabbing thief and the next big thing is already on its way. Goodbye Facebook.

Re: Facebook: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit

teddy — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:24:54 -0000

well for anyone thats had the net awhile do a google search on ur name it will pop up all things on net are public no longer private, if u wat something kept private dont put it on the net simple as that