A California federal court recently issued a substantial monetary award in favor of Facebook and permanent injunction against a website that enabled its users to aggregate their data in social networking sites and messaging services.
Summary of the case. Power Ventures, Inc. (PVI) operates a website called power.com which integrates multiple social networking accounts. In late 2008, PVI began permitting
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For the past three years, social media platform Facebook has pursued legal action against social media aggregator Power Ventures (“Power”) over what it has viewed as a blatant violation of state and federal law. Filed by Facebook in December 2008, the suit alleges violations by Power of the