in what is a result of google strong-arming a blogger, the anonymous blog that was posting facebook ‘secrets’ was shutdown earlier today. a new blog called facebook secrets again has now been created and documents the back and forth between the blogger and google with regards to the dmca.

Hello,

Blogger has been notified, according to the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), that content in your blog:

facebooksecrets.blogspot.com

allegedly infringes upon the copyrights of others.

not only is the legality of this action questionable since the code wasn’t stolen, rather leaked by facebook, but there is also no way for google to keep shutting down blogs that repost such content. and even if google does keep shutting them down, the content will simply move somewhere else.

what happens on the internet, pretty much always stays on the internet.