I recieved a C&D from Facebook
Friday, July 31, 2009 18:32Hey guys, it is with much regret and sadness today I received and Cease and Desist letter from Facebooks lawyers in regards to two tools I have released: FBSpy and Facebook link cloaker.
As of today I will no longer sell, support, or develop either one of these tools (so don’t ask). I will also ask everyone who has a copy to please stop using it! All posts about them, or techniques on how to use them, have been removed from MADPPC.com as far as I can tell. They also want me to turn over the names of anyone who has bought FBSpy, but I have no intention on doing that.
Frankly the link cloaker is a pretty generic (and shitty) link cloaking script wrote a long time ago (and never updated) and only contained the Facebook name because that was a hot developing advertising platform at the time, and it was very cloakable. Hell I could whip a new 10x better version in a day now, so no big loss. There are also many other cloakers out there for sale (and free) that are much better than that.
FBSpy was something close to me though, it was a tool that I’m sure a few have thought of doing, I just actually followed through. Kinda put me in the lime light and helped me gain some rep in the community.
You know in our business there is a never ending need to want to get a step up on the guy in front of us, or to just make a campaign profitable – period. Although my tool itself does not click ads, like some others do (I don’t have the link of the posts on WF so if someone finds it let me know). I’m sure their major beefs are:
- Referring to Facebook in any way shape or form.
- The fact that you can manually click though ads.
[rant]I know this tool made many people a lot of money, which in turn made Facebook a lot of money, but since when has Facebook ever cared about being profitable? Yet, you can’t dispute that there is a high probability that this stems from the whole click fraud issue that really came full circle with the published techcrunch articles due to outcry of the community (original article and followup article). Now maybe they’ll fix their horrific ad manager (do you hear me Facebook and/or attorneys I know your reading this) but probably not because they love failing. Facebook if you want some tips, let me know, you have all my primary e-mail addresses after all.[/rant]
I guess that’s my piece, I could rant and rave for a while about the problems with Facebook platform in general that have been shit for a while but honestly I need content for another post in the future and it’s petty. I’m not sure I’ve said everything I’ve wanted too, but no point to keep dwelling over this.
All jokes aside though, it would be nice to see something good come out of this, I mean I hope they didn’t go through all this trouble just to shut down a couple silly little tools (not that I’m making them work hard for it).
It was a great run while it lasted, thanks to all my readers and supporters! I am however on to new, bigger, and better projects that will make me many times more money that FBSpy ever did (like autolandingpage.com). So don’t be sad, think of this as a new chapter in my journey, we all have a lot to learn yet in this ever changing thing we call ‘internet marketing’.
Now stop reading, go make money and get paid!
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itchy says:
July 31st, 2009 at 7:06 pm
be a damn shame if an open source copy got leaked on piratebay then dawg..
facefuck fail again.
props to you.
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Jason says:
July 31st, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Brad, sorry to hear about the C&D and I know how you feel. I recently got one from an advertiser in a niche I was promoting. I’m glad to see you’re not giving up and moving on to better things. I appreciate your hard work and contributions to the community.
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Nick Throlson says:
August 30th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Hey Man’
Sorry to hear about C&D sucks when you get those I got one from cash4gold re my domains sucks but its just life to the rest of your success don’t give up
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September 8th, 2009 at 1:47 am
Sorry to ask you about this but what do you mean by C&D from Facebook.. I am not so familiar with that though I am a Facebook User.
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October 6th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Hahahahahaha “Internet Marketing Blog” Mr. Self Proclaimed PRO IMer has no idea what a C&D is???
Holy shit are you kidding me?! If you don’t know what that is, apparently you’re not pushing enough, or you don’t know how to use Google.
FOR FUCKS SAKE! PRO IM’er??? You’re a fucking newb! LOL
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