After shutting down IGC for quite some time I’ve decided to fire it back up since there has been so many good articles that need posted. The lastest one is on Facebooks infringement policy. I’m associated with another company called (co-founder) Jabberbox Designs. Jabberbox Designs produces carrying cases for the Jawbone headsets. This morning I received an email saying our Jabberbox Facebook page has been taken down. Below is their half ass email that they sent me about it.
Hello,
We have removed or disabled access to the following content that you have posted on Facebook because we received a notice from a third party that the content infringes or otherwise violates their rights:
Fbpage: Jabberbox
We strongly encourage you to review the content you have posted to Facebook to make sure that you have not posted any other infringing content, as it is our policy to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers when appropriate.
If you believe that we have made a mistake in removing this content, then please visit http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=1108 for more information.
The Facebook Team
First off, how the hell are we supposed to review the content when you’ve taken it down? Facebook’s policy on copyright infringement that it seems a 5 year old wrote it. They have actually exposed a simple hack to all hackers to easily take down FB business pages. How? File a complaint stating your name, number and email, that’s it. Facebook does not verify the complaintor’s information nor do they verify the so called infringement.
We all have known for some time that Facebook for being a billion dollar company has many flaws, both in design and functionality of the social networking site. Here is my plan of attack on Facebook after waking up to this email this morning and being pretty bent about it.
I’m going to submit a press release that will be distributed to 8000 different news syndications. I’m doing this for two reasons, to expose their horrible policy and also benefit from the media (I think they’ll like this type of confrontation), exposing the media and driving more sets of eyes to the Jabberbox website. In the meantime I’m going to get to the bottom of the infringement problem. I’m about 90% certain that once I get the complaintors name, number and email address, they will all be invalid as I’m sure it’s a hack as happened to Redmond Pie’s Facebook page. You can read the full article on Redmond Pie’s infringement here.
Here is an update to the Jabberbox Designs Facebook infringement policy submitted through our marketing channels.
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