Nice post Berni. Good fuel for thought. I think FB shares the same philosophy as Google as far as rights over the material are concerned. People are just giving their material away for good, owned by some mega corporation who does nothing in return.
Offering a service that allows people to show their material is one thing, claiming rights over the work of other people by the millions is quite another.
While this happens and it's seen as "good business", doing well in the markets and all that, on the States and abroad big groups (aka as lobbies) put the pressure on intelligence services (like the FBI) to chase after the sites that allow people to share content, supposedly, 'cause that's just another way of saying "censuring the internet", punishing the public's freedom for the good of some select few big corporations and their greedy agendas.
For big american corporations to own everything for good, while not respecting the privacy of its users is not a problem. It helps to gather information that would be much more expensive to get otherwise, so it's cool. The public gets screwed either way.
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