Get out of MySpace, bloggers rage at Murdoch

by UK Independent

Sun, Jan 8, 2006 1:36PM

Angry members of MySpace, the personal file-sharing website for young adults, are accusing Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation of censoring their postings and blocking their access to rival sites.

The 38 million subscribers to MySpace, which News Corp bought for $629m (£355m) last July, discovered that when they wrote to each other about rival video-swapping site YouTube, the words were automatically deleted, and attempts to download video images from YouTube led to blank screens.

The intervention by News Corp in the traditionally open-access world of the web - in particular the alteration of personal user profiles - provoked a storm of angry posts in online "blogs".

"This is soooo like Fox and News Corp to try and secretly seal our mouths with duct tape," wrote "Alex" to Blog Herald.

The protests gathered pace, and when 600 MySpace customers complained and a campaign began to boycott the site and relocate to rival sites such as Friendster, Linkedin, revver.com and Facebook.com, News Corp relented and restored the links.

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§ Get out of MySpace, bloggers rage at Murdoch

by UK Independent

Thu, Jan 12, 2006 9:39AM

Is it just me, or has accuracy in journalism died with the latest Bush in office?

MySpace isn't about filesharing. MySpace is about blogging, and finding new people. MySpace is not easily configured to filesharing, in any fashion. The only "filesharing" possibilities on MySpace revolve around coding music or video into your profile or blog pages, which is not "filesharing."

Do us all a favor, and get it right the first time.

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