Dear Facebook...Please Listen to Us, Your Customers

Chris Leydon · Top Commenter · Tech Editor at The BiG! Agency
Should TechCrunch REALLY be promoting Pirated material? Sure the show was great and it's available on the BBC iPlayer for those in the UK and BBC iPlayer Worldwide has opened up too and I imagine it's on there; however I am questioning the editorial integrity behind actively promoting pirated material without a care in the world... or is this what TechCrunch is now about? Riding off the back of others material for cheap hits. Making publicly available, through forms of linking, copyrighted material without the expressed consent of the holder is illegal under UK law. Do TechCrunch and AOL really want to piss the BBC off that much? - Come on guys, this is cheap blogging crap under designed to get quick hits. Get a grip, get reporting real news and perhaps make a decent documentary on Facebook yourselves... you've got the video talent, in the UK at least, use it.
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· 4 hours ago

Max Woolf · Top Commenter · Carnegie Mellon University · 552 subscribers
I thought it was the official one until I read this comment. :\
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· 3 hours ago
Uyai William Ukpe · Top Commenter
bbc i player worldwide, is opening soon, not yet open, as for ur comment..thats Techcrunch you chris
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· 3 hours ago
Chris Leydon · Top Commenter · Tech Editor at The BiG! Agency
Fabricio Ferrero: I live in the UK, I pay for my Television License. I saw it live.
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Richard Lauren · Top Commenter · Prague, Czech Republic
This was just the BBC Facebook pre-IPO infomercial. There will be many more in the run-up to IPO. All just as 'impartial' as presented by this reporter who just happens to be....
Sad how the BBC has been hijacked by 'vested interests' who have no loyalty to their birthplace.
Worse still how the US Tech media has been hijacked by religious nepotism.
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Joseph Higgins · Space Cowboy at National Aeronautics and Space Administration - NASA
That video lasted long...
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Francisco Kemeny · Santiago, Chile
yeap...
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Chris Leydon · Top Commenter · Tech Editor at The BiG! Agency
Fuck it. I'm already in enough trouble with Erick as it is... but how can you encourage people to watch copyrighted content illegally on this post, yet warn your readers (and encourage them NOT to do it) that using H1Siri is illegal because it uses copyrighted code? - http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/05/dont-do-it-new-siri-port-h1siri-is-illegal-breaks-your-iphone/

Question: Why do you feel as though you can tell your readers to watch copyrighted content illegally, and provide them with a direct source, in one post; but warn your users against using a hack that infringes Apple's copyright in another? Who's in charge of editorial compliance here?
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Nathaniel Freeman · Staffordshire
oh the irony
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Fred Zepplin
Chris you really used the phrase "editorial integrity behind actively promoting pirated material without a care".........ever used youtube? Are you really that stupid? Ever see all the pirated material on youtube? I mean, really, that statement is either ignorant, stupid, or both. And what's wrong with pissing off the BBC? Those fucks have no "integrity", even less than the media in the US, if that's possible.
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Uyai William Ukpe · Top Commenter
i stooped reading when you said BBc have no integrity, some good shows have been on it, I remember watching little britian and weakest link on it, don't know any american shows as good
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Richard Lauren · Top Commenter · Prague, Czech Republic
Uyai William Ukpe I just love satire... well done!
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Olly Newport · City College Brighton and Hove
The BBC is fine, they do excellent broadcasting work the majority of the time. The main issue is with how our universe's copyright works.

A trail of the programme featured above would have been an acceptable form of promotion.

When The Social Network was released, I never remember seeing a full-length, HD rip of the movie posted to this website - a trailer: http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/15/facebook-movie-trailer/ was actually.

I can, however, understand the quandary of this situation - with the absence of a global BBC iPlayer it feels like the only way of seeing the above content is via unauthorised uploads.
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Julian Hugh · Top Commenter · Founder and CEO at SwagFriends.com teens social network
Mark is a good coder but when it comes to speaking about the business side of Facebook or anything really, he seems clueless. I think I rather hear from the twins that came up with the idea for Facebook about the business side of it.
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Lee Devine
Actually no it is not the same thing. I can spend time on a website because it is hard to use and understand... I can spend time on a website because it is fun and entertaining.
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· 4 hours ago

Zorlac Realm · Top Commenter · Java Developer/UI-UX Designer at IT Firm
Huh? Why are you going to spend time if its hard to use?

"We are trying to make it so that the time that you spend on Facebook is so valuable that you want to come back every day."

It is one of those mind boggling and head scratching statements from facebook. It is the same them saying "Facebook leads privacy innovation"
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· 4 hours ago
James Mears · Works at Saffron Digital
I think what he meant was: we don't want people spending more time per session (the previous point had been about how Facebook has very long session times compared to, say, a google search, therefore providing more value to advertisers). But they do want more frequent sessions.
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· 3 hours ago

John Fernandez
"Isn’t that the same thing?" Are you serious? no wonder you write for this iphone app news blog.
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· 3 hours ago

Uyai William Ukpe · Top Commenter
Mark zuckerberg(andy sandberg) gets inroduced by "All I Do is Win" lol,
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Tundey Akinsanya · Top Commenter · George Mason
Is that what he looks like in a suit? That explains why he's always in a t-shirt.
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George Adams
LOL at the creepy pet society player dude.
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Rick Kats · Top Commenter · Toronto, Ontario
solid documentary.
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Paras Chadha
Good watch!
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