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Facebook audio application removed
Every once in a while something happens that no one should be surprised by. America becoming the fattest country in the world. Lance Bass being gay. And so on. Such is the case with the latest Facebook casualty. It was no big surprise that the Facebook audio application was removed recently. Really, it only had two major flaws. One being that it was incredibly popular, the second being that it was blatantly illegal. Funny how those two things never really go together without some sort of consequence. The audio application basically allowed you to upload and share MP3's. That is all fine and dandy, except that most people used it to upload and share copyrighted material, which we all know from our "Metallica's Guide to Online Behaviour" books, is evil. Despite this fact, and the fact that when you uploaded a song, it was easy to tell which user did the uploading, the app had over 750,000 users.
Although not inherently clear exactly who would be liable for this act, it seems natural for Facebook to go ahead and remove the app themselves. Better to avoid trouble before it starts, regardless of who is to blame. We'd hate to see Metallica get all angry again. Besides, it's not like anyone's uploading any of their new music anymore. Perhaps they could go online and try to illegally download some relevance. Anyway, if you had the audio application, hope you enjoyed it. If you didn't, well, it's too late now.
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Subscribe to commentslabanAug 1st 2007 10:48AM
Peter White, I like your articles.
kojo87Aug 1st 2007 1:44PM
its only a matter of time until the Box application gets the boot. it basically allows you to upload any file of any type and let people to download them. yeah like that will never be used for illegal file-sharing.
iamhoffAug 2nd 2007 12:45PM
Beer good. Napster baaaad.
S.AAug 4th 2007 8:30AM
Peter, you are wrong. The app. didn't allow users to "upload" songs at any point. Although it could be a planned feature for the future.
Your analysis is also faulty in the sense that the audio app. was not different at all from current facebook apps. such as posted items (which is a built-in app. developed by facebook itself) to third party apps. like the Uber player - except in one key aspect. It allowed people to basically search a collection of other people's music and put it on their profile. That's what must have caused this trouble.
I know because I was an avid user from it's
fledgling days to the end times.
I really don't care that it has been removed because I can still upload mp3s on my own webspace and post them to my profile using posted items or other players.