DISQUS

cybele · 2 years ago

For about 2 years I emailed MySpace with DMCA complaints (mostly hotlinking but some wholesale republication of my site). The NEVER addressed a single concern and never responded to any of my emails with more than an automated reply saying that they would get back to me. They fail.

The only solice I've taken is that the folks who were taking/reposting/hotlinking eventually abandoned their pages.

I have less experience with Xanga, but found them equally non-responsive.

Posting of policies is nice but useless if they do nothing once you file something with them.

Maria · 2 years ago

Sorry if this question sounds stupid, but I hadn't considered any plagiarism/copyright issues with a site like LinkedIn.

What are the risks you are considering when contemplating removing your own profile from LinkedIn?... People copying your resume and credentials?

JB · 2 years ago

Cybele,

That is strange, I've had no problems with Myspace since I realized their registration with the USCO was out of date. I've sent several DMCA notices to the email above and have had no problems. Can you forward me some of that correspondence and let me look?

Until recently, Xanga was a major problem. They are not DMCA compliant though and I've had several successful runs with them. Once again, if you want me to look at the correspondence, I'll be happy to see if there's anything that leaps out at me as being different.

Hope that I can help!

Maria,

I'm not so much worried about someone copying anything off of my LinkedIn profile, I just feel that their way of handling abuse, all kinds of abuse, is very unprofessional and I don't want to be connected to a site that isn't a good neighbor on the Web.

As far as what can be copied, anything that is on the site really could be. You mention the resume as one possibility, also summaries and other crafted descriptions can be as well. I admit that the risk is relatively low on LinkedIN when compared to other social news sites, but the possibility exists and, in a professional environment, could be much more damaging than, say, on Myspace.

Like I said, it has more to do with principle than a serious threat. It would be nice to know that, in the unlikely event something did happen, there would be an easy channel of complaint.

Sadly, that's not the case.

Hope that explains it some!

Robin · 2 years ago

Only tangentially related, but I was pleased to see that MySpace has a very clear-cut form to fill out if you want to have your feed removed from their "MySpace News" service. Only problem is that I've filled it out twice, and they have never contacted me and they're still using my feed.

JB · 2 years ago

Robin: That is interesting to hear. They're probably still working out a lot of the bugs in Myspace News as it is a fairly new service, but you're right, they should have removed you. Can you give me a link to that form?

Also, I wouldn't be shocked if Myspace news is no more coming soon, it appears to be a miserable failure of an experiment.

Robin · 2 years ago

Here you go:

http://news.myspace.com/forms/removesite

JB · 2 years ago

Robin: That is a nice form, pity that it doesn't seem to work. Overall though, I doubt Myspace News will last to the end of the year at this pace. Still, it'd be nice if they actually did what their form said it would

Recording Studio · 2 years ago

A single Grade A. That is shocking. Considering these are large sites managed by large companies who have access to large amount of gray cells.

JB · 2 years ago

Recording Studio: I agree it is shocking. LinkedIN, due to its structure, is not a huge worry but Friendster is. Myspace is not shocking considering the site and nature of their business, the minimum to get by is a cost-saving procedure at that point, but I am hurt by Orkut, Bebo and the others. I agree, they should have the lawyers and eggheads to get this right, sadly, they don't seem to have bothered.