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I'm a gnu/eff booster most of the time. However, it's worth looking at more of the details here: http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2009/01/facebook-vs-power-v...

"Collecting Facebook usernames and passwords is at the heart of the dispute. Power.com impersonates a Facebook user after collecting their username and password."

I would still side with power BUT a TOS that says "you can't give your password to third parties" is a bit different from "you can't use any automated processes at all".



That's interesting, but:

a) They are going after the third party, not the people that gave them their passwords, and

b) I believe Facebook also harvest passwords for other sites (hotmail etc)

c) In practice, there's not much difference between "Nobody can create a service that uses user's passwords to automate their Facebook access" and "You can't use any automated processes to access Facebook".


Uh sht...

I forgot the Facebook harvesting passwords thing...

NOW that's rich... my qualms are gone....




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