http://doomsdaylabs.com/2008/12/happy-birthday-to-xiaonei-facebooks-430m-chinese-clone/ A humor blog about technology, philosophy, culture, design, passion, and the apocalypse. Fri, 18 Feb 2011 05:37:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://doomsdaylabs.com/2008/12/happy-birthday-to-xiaonei-facebooks-430m-chinese-clone/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Andy Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:32:25 +0000 http://doomsdaylabs.com/?p=92#comment-15 As far as I know, Facebook have made no public stink about the situation. I would doubt they're happy with it but it would be difficult to enforce a legal claim. I'm basing this assumption on the due diligence process of these American capital firms - they would have flagged the investment as too risky if they thought the risk of legal complications was high. As far as I know, Facebook have made no public stink about the situation. I would doubt they’re happy with it but it would be difficult to enforce a legal claim. I’m basing this assumption on the due diligence process of these American capital firms – they would have flagged the investment as too risky if they thought the risk of legal complications was high.

]]> http://doomsdaylabs.com/2008/12/happy-birthday-to-xiaonei-facebooks-430m-chinese-clone/comment-page-1/#comment-14 JT Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:34:08 +0000 http://doomsdaylabs.com/?p=92#comment-14 This is quite staggering. Seems like they are not even attempting to deviate. One thing is for a small shop to counterfit luxury goods etc. But with 30m users, these guys are a serious business. If international copyright laws is to have any weight, you would think that the Chinese government has to step in and allow legal action to take its due course here. This is quite staggering. Seems like they are not even attempting to deviate. One thing is for a small shop to counterfit luxury goods etc. But with 30m users, these guys are a serious business. If international copyright laws is to have any weight, you would think that the Chinese government has to step in and allow legal action to take its due course here.

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