MySpace Users Revolt Against Murdoch

arclightfire writes "Looks like Murdoch's News International have stired up a revolt within users of the MySpace file-sharing site they purchased for $629m (£355m) last July, reports the Independent; "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...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...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.""

It IS My Space

[Anonymous Coward]

It IS My Space.

All Mine.

Rupert

File Sharing?

[AsnFkr]

MySpace, the personal file-sharing

Myspace is not a file-sharing site. Its one of those "Social-hub" places fat girls post blurry pictures of themselves on.

Rupert is just jealous.

[ryg0r]

No one has added him as to their friends list. Of course he's going to get a bit cranky.

However samy is my hero. [namb.la]

What's with all the Independent lifted stories?

[morgdx]

Nobody in the UK reads the Independent, but now everyone on /. does?

Weird.

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Re:just a minute

[blowdart]

Wouldn't the world actually be a BETTER place if all the users revolted, and the site shut down altogether?

What, and risk having their target audience spread out over the net? At least myspace is a single area that contains their poetry about failed fumblings in the back site of mom's car, their discussions of exactly which black t-shirt are they supposed to wear with what foundation and their row upon row of identical self portraits each proclaiming they look goth because it's unique and original.

No, we should hail Murdoch as a brave netizen for keeping them all in one (mosh) pool.

Re:It IS My Space

[Anonymous Coward]

No, it's MySpace

Re:Interesting

[MadCow42]

Actually, I quite enjoy people that hotlink images from my site... I regularly watch my logs to see where it's happening, then substitute the hot-linked images with something like the goatse.cx main image.

Normally, that takes care of the problem quickly, and teaches the person a lesson in the process. Surprisingly though, some people never notice - which is especially funny when it's being used as someone's avitar.

MadCow.

Re:It IS My Space

[Hogwash McFly]

MySpaceBarIsBroken?

Way to go

[l33tlamer]

Anime nerd, Manga geeks, Hentai freaks, Loli Maniacs, Warez Distributors and Attention-grabbing Cam whores... I mean MySpace users rejoice :)

How else are you supposed to keep your bus pass?

[Inoshiro]

Without a wallet, their bus pass would have to sit in their pocket naked and get all crumply!

My God, that's terrible

[Deep Fried Geekboy]

If only there were OTHER ways of posting pictures of yourself on the internet with the spots photoshopped out in the hope that some girl in Kansas will think you're hot and add her to her friends list while discussing with your bedroom-bound peer group the latest netvid of some jerk wiping out on his BMX and straddling his nuts on the crossbar while simultaneously downloading pirated copies of godawful corporate-fabricated whine rock.

Oh, the humanity! Won't somebody think of the children?

Oh, hang on...

Re:just a minute

[ScaryFroMan]

Wouldn't the world actually be a BETTER place if all the users revolted, and the site shut down altogether?

I think the users are revolting already...

Re:just a minute

[kalbzayn]

I use myspace to make sure my monitor can really print all the millions of colors it claims it can. All you have to do is view any page on myspace and it is guaranteed to use each and ever color possible

Re:Er...

[DrStrange66]

MySpace isn't a file-sharing website is it?

I thought myspace was a dating site. THAT must be the reason I haven't gotten a date from there yet!

Re:Er...

[British]

(has anyone noticed Slashdot going suckingly slow to reply to a thread? I should not have to hit Reload)

Yep, and let's not a forget it's a site where boys cant keep their shirts on and the girls can't keep their pants on, at least to the pictures. Myspace is not even close to being a file sharing site. It's a site to prove to the world you have no idea how to make a web page. Hey, let's embed a jay-z video and an eminem video on the same page!

Utterly stupid. You could use certain people's profiles as stress tests for firefox.

Coppers!

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

I was lurking around on there for a little while...

Better watch it, that sort of thing gets "out of hand" (in more ways than one!), next thing you know, the cops want to talk to you.

Re:Just be careful

[AlienGoods]

Border travel? Why would you want to leave the US? ....What? You say Cheney is running....Oh CANADA! Mod me offtopic. The midget with seltzer said its ok.

*Somebody* is keeping Hot Topic in business.

[cno3]

You know, the emo kids wearing "Know your Roots" t-shirts with game consoles older than they are?

New Headline

[MrCopilot]

MySpace Users Revolting.

I cannot stand MySpace.com

[Anonymous Coward]

Ah. Drama from MySpace.com? Who'd have thought.

Why couldn't Jack Thompson have done society a favor and offered his 10,000 bribe to get MySpace taken down?