LuminousVoid

Last semester, I blogged about a complaint I helped to research and write for Center for Democracy and Technology. The complaint was against deceptive download websites. These guys would advertise that they offered “100% legal downloads” while just giving out freely available copies of Kazaa and other filesharing software. This deceived consumers into thinking their $24.95 went to buy a license to download music using Kazaa.

And today, the Federal Trade Commission, having acted on our complaint, got an injunction against one of the operators. This bans them from using their deceptive practices. They’re seeking to have the website pay back money to consumers and notify consumers that they were deceived.

Awesome.

Friendster finally added a feature I had been thinking would be obvious. Wired writes on the new “Who’s Viewed Me?” feature. It lets you see who has viewed your profile. However, you can still browse anonymously, by going to “My Settings.” That preserves your ‘in friendster’ anonymity. If you want more anonymity, you should also select to turn “safe mode” on. This prevents any HTML from loading in the person’s page. A person could find out your IP address and the other information that you give up when you browse to a page. That’s not going to link to your friendster profile though.