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[bzarcher]

I'm stealing from dasubergeek on this.

All the writings in this journal not previously copyrighted by others are copyright by me; I specifically deny permission for the content of this journal to be published, copied, or re-posted elsewhere without my specific written permission to the contrary.

This includes "frienditto". If you are part of this service or any other like it and are on my friends-list, please tell me and I will lock the friends-only portion of this journal, or I will defriend you, at my sole option. If you do not tell me and I find that you are part of this service or any other like it, I will defriend you.

The entire purpose of the frienditto service is to steal people's privacy. The introduction even says it's to "get something hot that they didn't want me to read." I don't think I have to explain why that's offensive.

Comments

[karzon.livejournal.com]

WTF is this "frienditto" crap? I've never heard of it.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

It's a service that's being billed as a way to download any entry that you might have access to on livejournal. You give them your account info and the url of any user's entry, and it goes, gets the content, strips headers, and puts it on a page for you. And if it's friends only or private, the only way to make the entry friends-only in Frienditto is if you pay for it.

[driley1.livejournal.com]

Ugh. That entire site gives me that uncomfortable feeling in the pit of my stomach.

The fact that the webmaster boasts 8m "hits" and sounds like a fifteen-year-old does little to nothing to calm me.

Might as well just fuck making any entry FO now... either Public, or Private.

I can only hope that bradfitz and the LJ Abuse team are at least aware of this, even if they can't exactly do anything about it.

[driley1.livejournal.com]

er, mind if I share this information on my LJ?

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Please.

[jeremyjx.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAA, all of your entries are belonging to us.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Ahh, yes.

Sir, I'm sorry, you're a fucking moron. Please go sleep it off?

[chaoticgoodnik.livejournal.com]

One of my friends who volunteers in Support has made a PSA about it, so I suspect that the powers that be are aware of it.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Good. Thanks!

[robyscots.livejournal.com]

Ditto to what Joe said, what is it exactly, this frienditto?

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

See the explanation above. :D

[chaoticgoodnik.livejournal.com]

So, um ... not to be overly snarky, but did you ask him if you could repost this, or did he give permission? ;) (Or is it previously copyrighted by someone else?)

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I figured the warning was fairly clearly public domain, but I'm gonna go ask him.

[mephron]

I read somewhere in the critical mass of data that is my friends list that the registering person for frienditto is ALSO the person that has ljdrama.com.

Draw your own comparisons.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

I am really, really not surprised.

[chaoticgoodnik.livejournal.com]

The contact info for ljdrama.com is for a corporation and not a person, but that doesn't mean that isn't correct. *shrug*

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

I had a friend say LJ Abuse corroborates this same byte of information.

[gigerlicious.livejournal.com]

This is what a paper journal is for.


I don't care what laws are being broke, if you value your privacy, don't publish to the internet.