I am doing some research into Facebook privacy, and stumbled upon this option in the Facebook privacy policy.
Users must explicitly opt out of being included in “Social Ads”. For those who are not familiar with this concept, picture your profile mug in a sidebar ad suggesting you heartily endorse this event or product.
In the Social Ads tab, change Appearance in Social Ads to No one.
I’m really very surprised about the lack of “Hey! WTF?” that this feature has gotten, especially after the Beacon debacle and other Facebook criticisms.
Online Advertising, Social Media
Facebook, Krusty the Clown, privacy, social ads
Please see (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3)
Part 3 ended with the trial judge explaining that copying music was ok, since we Canadians have to pay a tax on blank CDs that is supposed to be distributed to labels to mitigate the monetary loss made possible by the public’s God-given right to do what they want with what they buy. In addition, putting my tunes in shared folder, does not constitute a crime, because I am not giving you my Metallica, you are simply moving it to your device (which is not taxed, BTW).
Since this all appears to be legal, that does not justify ordering the ISPs to snitch on their clients. Therefore, the labels can’t sue us directly… yet.
The labels appeal…
Several months later in July 2004, the CIRA appealed the decision. Justice Edgar Sexton reviewed the case and the Federal Court of Appeal handed down its unanimous decision on May 19, 2005. The Appellant Judge dismissed the appeal, but “having regard to what must be considered as divided success on this appeal, there will be no order as to costs.” (Sexton, 2005 par. 56) Read more…
Digital Music, Legal Studies, Media Technology
, CIRA, privacy, private copy amendment, Sexton, sharing
Part one of this essay ended with the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) was putting forth a motion to force ISPs to give up the names of P2P file-sharers.
On this motion, the CRIA provided an affidavit from Gary Millin, President of MediaSentry, a company that specializes in detecting the distribution of materials on P2P networks. The record labels supplied MediaSentry with the names of songs that were to be investigated. The company then searched for and downloaded the songs, matched the sources of the files to specific IP addresses and took screenshots of the users shared folders to show the volume of copyrighted material being made available for download. Read more…
Digital Music, Legal Studies, Media Technology
CRIA, DMCA, file sharing, Finckenstein, ISPs, PIPEDA, privacy, RIAA, WIPO, WPPT
Short answer: yes.
Well, it is more accurate to say that file-sharing is not illegal in Canada.
In 2005, I wrote and essay: “Copyright v. Privacy: A Review of the Legal War Between Record Labels and File Sharing from a Canadian Perspective”. I am going to review it here, in my blog and discuss what has happened since. Here is part one of the essay:
In February of 2004, the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) filed a federal lawsuit against 29 alleged file sharers for copyright infringement and requested their identities from the five major Canadian Internet Service Providers (ISPs). This was the first suit brought by the record label trade group against individual peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharers whom the CRIA claim have caused the loss of millions of dollars and dozens of jobs in the Canadian music industry. Citing privacy concerns, the ISPs refused. The CRIA proceeded to file a motion in the federal court to order the ISPs to disclose their clients’ private information. Read more…
Digital Music, Legal Studies, Media Technology
CRIA, DMCA, file sharing, Finckenstein, ISPs, PIPEDA, privacy, RIAA, WIPO, WPPT
