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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:49:27 +0100
From: Florian Cramer
Subject: Facebook demands Cease & Desist for the "Web 2.0 Suicide Machine"

The subject line says it all. On behalf of Facebook, the law firm
Perkins Coie has sent a Cease and Desist letter to Mike van Gaasbeek
from WORM http://www.wormweb.nl, the Rotterdam-based experimental arts
center of which MODDR_labs http://www.moddr.net, creators of the Web
2.0 Suicide Machine http://www.suicidemachine.org, are a part of.

Suggestions for competent legal defendants for WORM/MODDR would be
welcome. As a non-profit organization with roots in improvised and
electronic music and avant-garde filmmaking, WORM encounters this
situation for the first time. (Other media arts institutions wouldn't
have legal defense strategies ready in their desk drawers either.)

Since history is repeating itself for the n-th time here, a legal
defense network for arts and media organizations, artists, activists and
schools seems overdue; a network collaborating with good Internet
lawyers and raising funds for 'war chests'. Such networks and
organizations do exist in the world of Free Software/Open Source - like
the Open Source Legal Defense Center -, but they can't be trusted for
such purposes after FLOSS has got itself too deep in bed with Web 2.0
business.




  • 00000101000635400211115702998916051003310511767905117799
    dusanson 11.01.2010 - 23:15:33 level: 1 UP New
    January 6. 2010

    Web 2.0 Suicide Machine

    Re: Cease and Desist Violating Facebook's Statement of Rights and
    Responsibilities

    Dear Sir,

    We represent Facebook Inc., based in Palo Alto, California. It has come
    to Facebook's attention that Moddr, through its website located at
    www.suicidemachine.org, is (1) soliciting Facebook user login
    information, (2) accessing Facebook accounts that belong to others, (3)
    scraping content from Facebook, (4) sending unauthorized commercial
    communications, (5) falsely asserting that Moddr has partnered with
    Facebook, and {6) infringing Facebook's intellectual property rights on
    and through www.suicidemachine.org.

    *Facebook demands that you cease this activity immediately.*

    Among other things, your solicitation and storage of usernames and
    passwords outside of the protected Facebook environment, and your
    intrusive automated scripting on the Facebook Platform, violate
    Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities ("Statement").
    Facebook takes the protection of its users' privacy and the security of
    their data very seriously and is committed to keeping Facebook a safe
    place for users to interact and share information. Facebook has
    developed its Statement to protect its users and to facilitate these
    goals. The Statement specifically prohibits:

    - Soliciting users' Facebook login information;

    - Accessing a Facebook account belonging to someone else;

    - Collecting Facebook users' content or information using automated
    means such as scripts or scrapers without Facebook's permission;

    - Sending or otherwise posting unauthorized commercial communications
    (such as spam); and

    - Using Facebook's intellectual property, including Facebook's copyrights
    or trademarks without written permission.

    See http://www.facebook.com/terms.php

    In addition to breaching Facebook's Terms, the www.suicidemachine.org
    website may violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030;
    the California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, CA
    Penal Code § 502(c); the Califomia Anti-Phishing Act of 2005, CA Bus.
    and Prof. Code § 22948, et seq.; the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 502 et
    seq.; the Lanham Act. 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a), et seq.; and state laws
    prohibiting interference with Facebook's business expectations and
    interests.

    Please respond to me in writing no later than Monday, January 11, 2009,
    confirming that you:

    1. Have stopped and will refrain from soliciting Facebook user login
    information, except through an authorized means, such as Facebook Connect;

    2. Have deleted and destroyed any and all Facebook user content that was
    obtained through www.suicidemachine.org, including but not limited to user
    login credentials, usernames, Facebook user photos, profile information,
    or any other information "scraped" from the Facebook website;

    3. Have stopped and will refrain from utilizing automated scripts on
    Facebook websites;

    4. Have stopped and will refrain from sending or posting unauthorized
    commercial communications;

    5. Have removed all references to Facebook on www.suicidemachine.org; and

    6. Will in the future strictly comply with Facebook's Terms, Facebook
    Connect Policies, Developer Platform Guidelines, and any other applicable
    Facebook policies.

    Should you choose to ignore this letter and continue your current improper
    conduct, Facebook is continuing to evaluate its options and reserves the
    right to take whatever measures it believes are necessary to enforce
    its rights, maintain the quality of its site, and protect its users'
    privacy and information.

    Very truly yours,
    drahy facebook
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