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Mystic
03-20-2007, 01:24 PM
At stake is the ability of MySpace, which is owned by the News Corporation, to ensure that it alone can commercially capitalize on its 90 million visitors each month.

But to some formerly enthusiastic MySpace users, the new restrictions hamper their abilities to design their pages and promote new projects.
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MySpace says that it will block these pieces of third-party software — also called widgets — when they lend themselves to violations of its terms of service, like the spread of pornography or copyrighted material. But it also objects to widgets that enable users to sell items or advertise without authorization, or without entering into a direct partnership with the company.
Source (http://www.webmasterworld.com/r/redirect.cgi?f=103&d=3287030&url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/technology/20myspace.html)

Submerge
03-20-2007, 07:32 PM
I can see the point-of-view for MySpace, but also, I think they'll lose a lot of members by doing this. Of course, MySpace only wants themselves to make money, but it may irk members enough to leave a website that doesn't care for them, just profits.