Hot on the heel comes another Seppukoo’s latest update, the site has received a cease and desist from Facebook.

In fact, they aren’t the first to be contacted by Facebook. Facebookdownloader.com and similar sites have been contacted in the past when they have infringed the Facebook worldwide trademark rights by using the word “Facebook” in the domain names. However, this time the cease and desist letter is fell under the violation of Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, although some of the claims can be argued with. But unfortunately, some are clear violations of the terms.

The five claims are as follows:

- Soliciting users’ Facebook login information;
- Accessing a Facebook account that belongs to someone else;
- Collecting users’ content or information using automated means;
- Sending or otherwise posting unauthorized commercial communications;
- Using Facebook’s intellectual property.

To know more about this story, the case and desist letter is embedded as below.

Seppukoo Cease and Desist –

There will be more attacks on Facebook especially now it has reached 350 million accounts and its growth doesn’t show any sign of slowing. Although it is true that many of us prefer to use Facebook instead of other social networks due to its popularity, but a site called Seppukoo is offering Facebook users a way out of it.

Seppukoo, the site named after Seppuku, i.e. 切腹, stomach-cutting, the suicide with honor of ancient Japanese samurai. And predictably, the founding of Seppukoo is also about suicide, but to assist the Facebook users in committing virtual identity suicide through accounts deactivation. As the Seppuku restores samurai’s honor as a warrior, Seppukoo deals with the liberation of the digital body, the site says.

Aha. This seems like a bad idea. Remember my post on the “Practise Suicide Groups” and how I urge Facebook to ban the word “suicide 自殺” when someone creating a Facebook group.

In particular, Seppukoo offers Facebook users to pass away and leave their Facebook IDs behind and join the worldwide suicidal network, as the site says. Additionally, Seppukoo will also feature a RIP memorial page and send the page to all their friends that left behind on Facebook.

To go Seppukoo, you must enter your Facebook credentials, and choose the memorial page template, compose the “last words” before your Facebook account is deactivated. Meanwhile, you earn point when you influence your Facebook friends go Seppukoo; with Seppukoo it’s not important how many friends you have, but how much you may influence them, the site says.

For Facebook, this is an attack attempting to direct the curious of virtual suicide towards the end of social networking activities. However, the latest update is that Facebook has blocked Seppukoo. Once the users enter their Facebook credentials, they will receive a pop-up message as below.

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