Frienditto-a-no-no!

[catzen]

For users of frienditto, a request:
Please don't *$%#*&$ use frienditto. And if you do, please let me know: I'd really like to keep my friends-only posts just that.
Don't make the catzen angry. It's just not a good idea.
Thank you.

Comments

[catzen]

I don't think you've missed much, although I suppose the idea could be that one *could* use this "service" as a way to archive one's livejournal (for which there are already perfectly acceptable tools, I believe, many of them for free).

I certainly hope they get closed down, and fast.

(I thought it unlikely that anyone on my friends list would have used their "service," but I wanted to be safe. :-> )

[lightning_rose]

I thought it unlikely that anyone on my friends list would have used their "service," but I wanted to be safe.

If they have, then I'm sure that by now they've figured out that they should just keep quiet and it hope it alllll goes away. ;)

[catzen]

::laughs::

Yeah, you're probably right on the money. ;->

[grubbybastard]

Anything you create and fix into a tangible form is your own intellectual property. Distribution of it without your permission is illegal in the U.S. I wonder how long this site can really continue?

[catzen]

This is what I've been thinking. My guess is that they're going to get sued to hell at least until their site dies.

If one posts something friends only, I would also imagine that it wouldn't really be considered *publishing*, either, and certainly not with the intention of putting something into the public domain in any other sense, no?

[grubbybastard]

Even if you make a public posting, you are not putting the intellectual property into the public domain. Your rights are still reserved unless you explicitly waive them. If someone redistributes your public posts, you should have a strong case.

All of this assumes that frienditto is based in the U.S., which may not be the case. If they aren't in the U.S., then they would be much harder to sue in the U.S. : )

You bring up an interesting point, though. If you give someone a copy of something, then they do have certain rights about what they can do with their own copy. (They can make another copy for their own personal use without financial gain, for example.) So, according to the law, I should be able to archive those protected posts that you allow me to see. The law further allows someone to loan their copy to someone else, provided that the loan doesn't involve increasing the number of usable copies existing simultaneously. (This is the wrinkle that allows libraries to lend books.) So, legally, I can call up your

[catzen]

The law further allows someone to loan their copy to someone else, provided that the loan doesn't involve increasing the number of usable copies existing simultaneously. (This is the wrinkle that allows libraries to lend books.)

That's right: I remember this.

* Note that, for ethical reasons, I wouldn't share your protected posts with other people.

I didn't think so: you seemed too much the gentleman. ;-)

All of this assumes that frienditto is based in the U.S., which may not be the case.

I've gotten the impression they *are* based in the US, but I could be mistaken.

Even if you make a public posting, you are not putting the intellectual property into the public domain. Your rights are still reserved unless you explicitly waive them

I didn't think so, either.

[lcohen]

i am not a gentleman so i will go peddle your posts from the street corner....

[catzen]

i am not a gentleman

You're right: *you're* a brat, dear.

;-)))