I miss the days when there was only one social networking website I didn’t want to be a part of. Now with myspace, facebook, linkedin and others I find myself logging in to ten different websites just to answer to messages from my friends,…. but if only that was it…
…as the internet becomes cheaper and more importantly, more available across the world, I am once again, presented with forceful “encouragement” to join numerous social networking websites to keep in touch with people that I have largely lost touch with from my past.
Of course as they say..”curiosity killed the cat“, so as a well behaved consumer I login to these websites and create accounts to once again “keep in touch”
Well interestingly enough, the latest social networking website that i have been “encouraged” to join by some relatives from Russia turned out to be anything but, Russian.
Well the website itself is in Russia (i suppose) and it has a Russian name ( www.vkontakte.ru ) but there’s just something on that website that looked entirely too familiar…..
Basically it looks like the guy that owns that site took facebook.com code and translated it in Russian.
Good for him, looks like he is taking advantage of seemingly non existent copyright laws. Even if Facebook wanted to prevent him from blatantly stealing their code, i doubt there is much they can do.
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This post is tagged copyright, facebook, internet, russia, social networking
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