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Christopher DeWolfe }}

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www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=www.myspace.com Alexa.com's website rankings system] and top 500 global websites. Retrieved January 25, 2007</ref> and the third most popular website in the United States, though it has topped the chart on various weeks.<ref name="reuters20060711">{{cite news//www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=www.myspace.com Alexa.com's website rankings system] and top 500 global websites. Retrieved January 25, 2007</ref> and the third most popular website in the United States, though it has topped the chart on various weeks.<ref name="reuters20060711">{{cite news today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2006-07-11T154250Z_01_N11382172_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEDIA-MYSPACE.xml//today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2006-07-11T154250Z_01_N11382172_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEDIA-MYSPACE.xml |publisher=Reuters |title=MySpace gains top ranking of US Web sites |date=2006-07-11 |accessdate=2006-08-09 }}</ref> The service has gradually gained more popularity than similar websites to achieve nearly 80 percent of visits to online social networking websites.<ref name="reuters20060711" />

The company employs 300 staff<ref name="CNNMoney-MyspaceCowboys">{{cite news money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/09/04/8384727/index.htm//money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/09/04/8384727/index.htm | publisher=CNN | title=MySpace Cowboys | last=Sellers | first=Patricia | date=2006-08-24 | accessdate=2006-08-28 }}</ref> and does not disclose revenues or profits separately from News Corporation. With the 100 millionth account being created on August 9, 2006,<ref name="MySpace100Millionth Profile">{{cite news today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2006-07-11T154250Z_01_N11382172_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEDIA-MYSPACE.xml//profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=100000000 |publisher=MySpace |title=100,000,000th Account |date=2007-02-25 |accessdate=2007-02-21 }}</ref> in the Netherlands<ref name="Murdochcomments">{{cite news money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/09/04/8384727/index.htm//internet.seekingalpha.com/article/15237 | publisher=SeekingAlpha | title=Rupert Murdoch Comments on Fox Interactive's Growth | last=Murdoch | first=Rupert | date=2006-08-09 | accessdate=2006-09-12 }}</ref> and a news story claiming 106 million accounts on September 8, 2006,<ref name="ElReg-MySpaceMusic">{{cite news go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace_threatens_record_labels///go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace_threatens_record_labels/ | title = MySpace music deal poses multiple threats | date= 2006-09-08 | accessdate = 2006-09-08 | publisher = The Register }}</ref> the site reportedly attracts new registrations at a rate of 230,000 per day. As of December 18 2007, there are over 300 million accounts.^{[citation needed]}

Sommaire 1 History 2 History 3 Contents of a MySpace profile 3.1 Blurbs, blogs, multimedia 3.2 Comments 3.3 Profile customization (HTML) 3.4 Music 4 MySpace features 4.1 Bulletins 4.2 Groups 4.3 MySpaceIM 4.4 MySpaceTV 4.5 MySpace Mobile 4.6 MySpace News 4.7 MySpace Classifieds 5 Controversy over corporate history 5.1 Spam/Tom Anderson PR 5.2 Brad Greenspan / The MySpace Report 6 Criticism 6.1 Customer Service 6.2 Accessibility 6.3 Security 6.4 Child safety 6.5 Social and cultural 7 Politics 7.1 Censorship 7.2 Stalking 7.3 MySpace China 8 International sites 9 Musicians' rights and MySpace Terms of Use Agreement 10 Blocking 11 Legal issues 12 Celebrities on MySpace 13 YouTube 14 The Economy of MySpace 15 See also 16 References 17 Further reading 18 External links

History

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History

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freemyspace.com/08-28-03/.JPG</ref> The company then used its resources to push MySpace to the masses. eUniverse used its 20 million users and e-mail subscribers to quickly breathe life into MySpace <ref></ref>, and move it to the head of the pack of social networking websites. A key architect was tech expert Toan Nguyen who helped stabilize the MySpace platform when Brad Greenspan asked him to join the team.<ref>[1]</ref>//freemyspace.com/08-28-03/.JPG</ref> The company then used its resources to push MySpace to the masses. eUniverse used its 20 million users and e-mail subscribers to quickly breathe life into MySpace <ref></ref>, and move it to the head of the pack of social networking websites. A key architect was tech expert Toan Nguyen who helped stabilize the MySpace platform when Brad Greenspan asked him to join the team.<ref>[2]</ref>

freemyspace.com/I-2.jpg]</ref> Brad Greenspan nixed the idea, believing that keeping MySpace free and open was necessary to make it a large and successful community.<ref>[3]</ref>//freemyspace.com/I-2.jpg]</ref> Brad Greenspan nixed the idea, believing that keeping MySpace free and open was necessary to make it a large and successful community.<ref>[4]</ref>

Some employees of MySpace including DeWolfe and Berman were later able to purchase equity in the property before MySpace, and its parent company eUniverse (now renamed ‘Intermix’), were bought in July 2005 for US$580 million by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation (the parent company of Fox Broadcasting and other media enterprises). Of this amount, approx. US$327m has been attributed to the value of MySpace according to the financial advisor fairness opinion.

In January 2006, Fox announced plans to launch a UK version of MySpace in a bid to "tap into the UK music scene"<ref>"

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The corporate history of MySpace as well as the status of Tom Anderson as a MySpace founder has been a matter of some public dispute.

Contents of a MySpace profile

Blurbs, blogs, multimedia

Profiles contain two standard "blurbs:" "About Me" and "Who I'd Like to Meet" sections. Profiles also contain an "Interests" section and a "Details" section. However, fields in these sections will not be displayed if members do not fill them in. Profiles also contain a blog with standard fields for content, emotion, and media. MySpace also supports uploading images. One of the images can be chosen to be the "default image," the image that will be seen on the profile's main page, search page, and as the image that will appear to the side of the user's name on comments, messages, etc. Flash, such as on MySpace's video service, can be embedded. Also there is a "details" section which allows the user to provide personal information on the user such as his/her race, religion, sexual orientation.

Comments

Below the User's Friends Space (by default) is the "comments" section, wherein the user's friends may leave comments for all viewers to read. MySpace users have the option to delete any comment and/or require all comments to be approved before posting. If a user's account is deleted, every comment left on other profiles by that user will be deleted, and replaced with the comment saying "This Profile No Longer Exists."

Profile customization (HTML)

MySpace allows users to customize their user profile pages by entering HTML (but not JavaScript) into such areas as "About Me," "I'd Like to Meet," and "Interests." Videos, and flash-based content can be included this way. Users also have the option to add music to their profile pages via MySpace Music, a service that allows bands to post songs for use on MySpace.

A user can also change the general appearance of his page by entering CSS (in a <style> ... </style> element) into one of these fields to override the page's default style sheet using MySpace editors. This is often used to tweak fonts and colors, but it has its limitations due to poorly-structured HTML used on the profile page. The fact that the user-added CSS is located in the middle of the page (rather than being located in the <head> element) means that the page will begin to load with the default MySpace layout before abruptly changing to the custom layout. A special type of modification is a div overlay, where the default layout is dramatically changed by hiding default text with <div> tags and large images.

There are several independent web sites offering MySpace layout design utilities which let a user select options and preview what their page will look like with them.

MySpace has recently added its own "Profile Customizer" to the site, allowing users to change their profile through MySpace. Using this feature bypasses the CSS loading delay issue, as the MySpace default code is changed for the customized profile.

Music

MySpace profiles for musicians are different from normal profiles in that artists are allowed to upload up to six MP3 songs. The uploader must have rights to use the songs (e.g their own work, permission granted, etc). Unsigned musicians can use MySpace to post and sell music, which has proven popular among MySpace users.

MySpace features

Bulletins

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Groups

MySpace has a Groups feature which allows a group of users to share a common page and message board. Groups can be created by anybody, and the moderator of the group can choose for anyone to join, or to approve or deny requests to join.

MySpaceIM

Modèle:Mainarticle In early 2006, MySpace introduced MySpaceIM, an instant messenger that uses one's MySpace account as a screen name. A MySpace user logs in to the client using the same e-mail associated with his or her MySpace account. Unlike other parts of MySpace, MySpaceIM is stand-alone software for Microsoft Windows. Users who use MySpaceIM get instant notification of new MySpace messages, friend requests, and comments.

MySpaceTV

In early 2007, MySpace introduced MySpaceTV, a YouTube look-alike video sharing website.

MySpace Mobile

There are a variety of environments in which users can access MySpace content on their mobile phone. American mobile phone provider Helio released a series of mobile phones in early 2006 that can utilise a service known as MySpace Mobile to access and edit one's profile and communicate with, and view the profiles of, other members.<ref name="moconews-MySpaceHelios">{{cite web go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace_threatens_record_labels///www.moconews.net/?p=5176 | title = MySpace Mobile To Debut On Helio; Details on Handsets | author = | publisher = Dis*Content Media LLC | date= 2006-02-16 | accessdate = 2006-09-08 }}</ref> Additionally, UIEvolution and MySpace developed a mobile version of MySpace for a wider range of carriers, including AT&T<ref name="screenplays-MySpaceUIEvolution">{{cite web go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace_threatens_record_labels///www.screenplaysmag.com/news_exclusives/MySpace-UIEvolution-091406.html | title = MySpace Picks UIEvolution to Develop Mobile User Interface, Experiences | author = | publisher = ScreenPlays | date = | accessdate = 2006-09-27 }}</ref>, Vodafone<ref name="MySpaceVodaphone">{{cite web go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace_threatens_record_labels///live.marketclusters.com/cl2/view/2007/02/07/myspace_partners_with_vodafone/ | title = MySpace partners with Vodafone | author = | publisher = StrategyWire | date = | accessdate = 2007-02-08 }}</ref> and Rogers Wireless<ref name="MySpaceRogers">{{cite web go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace_threatens_record_labels///www.moconews.net/entry/419-myspace-launches-mobile-site-in-canada-with-rogers-wireless/ | title = MySpace Launches Mobile Site In Canada With Rogers Wireless; Charges Fee | author = | publisher = MocoNews | date = | accessdate = 2007-08-16 }}</ref>.

MySpace News

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MySpace Classifieds

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Controversy over corporate history

Spam/Tom Anderson PR

www.valleywag.com/tech/myspace/myspace-the-business-of-spam-20-exhaustive-edition-199924.php "MySpace: The Business of Spam 2.0"], was published by the Silicon Valley gossip blog, Valleywag (a Gawker Media property). The article recounted a detailed corporate history of MySpace, alleging that MySpace was not organically grown from Tom Anderson's garage, but rather was a product developed by eUniverse aimed at overtaking Friendster, and that had initially gained popularity through an intensive mass internet campaign and not by word of mouth.<ref>WHAT'S ONLINE; The Story Behind MySpace</ref> Amongst other claims was the assertion that Tom Anderson had originally been hired as a copyeditor and his "founder" and "first friend" status was a public relations invention. Lapinski suggested that News Corp. had attempted to suppress the publication of the history by threatening his original publisher.//www.valleywag.com/tech/myspace/myspace-the-business-of-spam-20-exhaustive-edition-199924.php "MySpace: The Business of Spam 2.0"], was published by the Silicon Valley gossip blog, Valleywag (a Gawker Media property). The article recounted a detailed corporate history of MySpace, alleging that MySpace was not organically grown from Tom Anderson's garage, but rather was a product developed by eUniverse aimed at overtaking Friendster, and that had initially gained popularity through an intensive mass internet campaign and not by word of mouth.<ref>WHAT'S ONLINE; The Story Behind MySpace</ref> Amongst other claims was the assertion that Tom Anderson had originally been hired as a copyeditor and his "founder" and "first friend" status was a public relations invention. Lapinski suggested that News Corp. had attempted to suppress the publication of the history by threatening his original publisher.

Brad Greenspan / The MySpace Report

freemyspace.com/ website] and published "The MySpace Report" that called for the Securities and Exchange Commission, the United States Department of Justice and the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance to investigate News Corp's acquisition of MySpace as "one of the largest merger and acquisition scandals in U.S. history."<ref>{{cite news//freemyspace.com/ website] and published "The MySpace Report" that called for the Securities and Exchange Commission, the United States Department of Justice and the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance to investigate News Corp's acquisition of MySpace as "one of the largest merger and acquisition scandals in U.S. history."<ref>{{cite news money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/09/04/8384727/index.htm//news.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/10381/277195.html | publisher=ecoustics.com | title=Myspace.com Founder Issues Report Finding News Corp.'s Myspace Acquisition Defrauded Shareholders of More Than $20 Billion | date=2006-10-09 | accessdate=2007-02-25 }}</ref> The report's main allegation is that News Corp. should have valued MySpace at US$20 billion rather than US$327 million, and had, in effect, defrauded Intermix shareholders through an unfair deal process.<ref>{{cite news money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/09/04/8384727/index.htm//pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/1141294651.html?dids=1141294651:1141294651&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+6%2C+2006&author=Dawn+C.+Chmielewski&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&edition=&startpage=C.1&desc=MySpace+Founder+Seeks+Inquiry | publisher=Los Angeles Times | title=MySpace Founder Seeks Inquiry | date=2006-10-08 | accessdate=2007-02-25 }}</ref> The report received a mixed response from financial commentators in the press.<ref>{{cite news money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/09/04/8384727/index.htm//www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2006/tc20061005_397237.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives | publisher=Business Week | title=Was MySpace Sold on the Cheap? | date=2006-10-06 | accessdate=2007-02-25 }}</ref> An initial lawsuit led by Greenspan challenging the acquisition was dismissed by a judge.<ref>{{cite news money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/09/04/8384727/index.htm//seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/288111_myspace10.html | publisher=Seattle Post-Intelligencer | title=Suit over sale of MySpace dismissed | date=2006-10-10 | accessdate=2007-02-25 }}</ref>

Greenspan's report also states that the MySpace program code had originally been the brainchild of an Intermix/eUniverse programmer named Toan Nguyen who made the breakthrough technical contributions to the project.<ref>Modèle:Cite web today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2006-07-11T154250Z 01 N11382172 RTRUKOC 0 US-MEDIA-MYSPACE.xml//freemyspace.com/history.htm</ref>

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Criticism

Customer Service

To compound potential issues, MySpace has no customer service telephone number readily available for the public,<ref>Modèle:Cite web go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace threatens record labels///www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=misc.contact/</ref> and contacting them for help via any other available corporate phone numbers rarely yields substantial results.

Accessibility

Because most MySpace pages are designed by individuals with little HTML experience, a very large proportion of pages do not satisfy the criteria for valid HTML or CSS laid down by the W3C. Poorly formatted code can cause accessibility problems for those using software such as screen readers.<ref>Modèle:Cite web go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace threatens record labels///www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/</ref> The MySpace home page, as of 26 September 2007, fails HTML validation with 125 errors,[5] using the W3C's validator.

Furthermore, MySpace is set up so that anyone can customise the layout and colors of their profile page with virtually no restrictions, provided that the advertisements are not covered up by CSS or using other means. As MySpace users are usually not skilled web developers, this can cause further problems. Poorly constructed MySpace profiles could potentially freeze up web browsers due to malformed CSS coding, or as a result of users placing many high bandwidth objects such as videos, graphics, and Flash in their profiles (sometimes multiple videos and soundfiles are automatically played at the same time when a profile loads). PC World cited this as its main reason for naming MySpace as #1 in its list of twenty-five worst web sites ever.<ref>Modèle:Cite web go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace threatens record labels///www.pcworld.com/article/id,127116-page,7-c,sites/article.html</ref>

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Security

In October 2005, a flaw in MySpace's site design was exploited by 'Samy' to create the first self-propagating cross-site scripting (XSS) worm. MSNBC has reported that "social-networking sites like MySpace are turning out to be hotbeds for spyware", with "[i]nfection rates are on the rise, in part thanks to the surging popularity of social-networking sites like MySpace.com."<ref>Modèle:Cite news go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace threatens record labels///www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14413906/</ref> In addition to this, the customization of user pages currently allows the injection of certain HTML which can be crafted to form a phishing user profile, thus keeping the myspace.com domain as the address.<ref>{{cite web money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/09/04/8384727/index.htm//mashable.com/2006/10/27/myspace-phishing-attack-appears-on-3000-pages/ | title=MySpace Phishing Attack Appears on 3000 Pages | date=2006-10-27 today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2006-07-11T154250Z_01_N11382172_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEDIA-MYSPACE.xml//news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/10/27/myspace_accounts_compromised_by_phishers.html}} </ref> More recently, there has been spam on bulletins that has been the result of phishing.<ref>You must specify title = and url = when using {{cite web}}.

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.</ref> Users find their MySpace homepage with bulletins they didn't post, realizing later they had been phished. The bulletin consists of an advertisement that provides a link to a fake login screen, tricking people into typing in their MySpace e-mail and password.

Other security fears regarding profile content itself are also present. For example, the embedding of videos inherently allows all of the format's abilities and functions to be used on a page. A prime example of this surfaced in December 2006, when embedded QuickTime videos were shown to contain hyperlinks to JavaScript files, which would be run simply by a user visiting a 'phished' profile page, or even in some cases by simply viewing a user's 'about me' elsewhere on the site. Users who entered their login information into a fake login bar that appeared would also become 'phished', and their account would be used to spam other members, thus spreading this security problem.<ref>{{cite web money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/09/04/8384727/index.htm//blog.spywareguide.com/2006/12/myspace_phish_attack_leads_use.html | title=Myspace Phish Attack Leads Users to Zango Content | date=2006-12-01}} </ref>

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Child safety

The minimum age to register an account on MySpace is 14.<ref>Modèle:Cite webmoney.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune archive/2006/09/04/8384727/index.htm//collect.myspace.com/misc/terms.html</ref> Profiles with ages set to 14 or 15 years are automatically private. Users whose ages are set at 16 or over have the option to restrict their profiles and the option of allowing certain personal data to be restricted to people other than those on their friends list. Accessing the full profile of, or messaging someone when their account is set to "private" (or if under sixteen) is restricted to a MySpace user's direct friends.

MySpace will delete these profiles if the victim verifies their identity and points out the profile via e-mail.<ref>Modèle:Cite web money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune archive/2006/09/04/8384727/index.htm//www.myspace.com/Modules/Help/Pages/HelpCenter.aspx?Category=2&Question=26</ref>

Recently, MySpace has been the focus of a number of news reports stating that teenagers have found ways around the restrictions set by MySpace, and have been the target of online predators.<ref>{{cite news go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace_threatens_record_labels///www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11165576/ | title = MySpace, Facebook attract online predators | publisher = MSNBC }}</ref> In response, MySpace has given assurances to parents that the website is safe for people of all ages. Beginning in late June 2006, MySpace users whose ages are set over 18 could no longer be able to add users whose ages are set from 14 to 15 years as friends unless they already know the user's full name or email address.<ref>Modèle:Cite newsgo.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace threatens record labels///www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/14867119.htm?source=rss&channel=mercurynews teens</ref> Some third party Internet safety companies like Social Shield<ref>{{cite news go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace_threatens_record_labels///www.prweb.com/releases/2006/08/prweb426711.htm | title= Social Shield Offers Help for Parents Struggling with Children on MySpace.com and other Social Networks | publisher = PR Web }}</ref> have launched online communities for parents concerned about their child's safety on MySpace.

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198981,00.html 'MySpace' Teen Returns From Middle East] Foxnews.com</ref> U.S. officials in Jordan persuaded the teen to turn around and go home.//www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198981,00.html 'MySpace' Teen Returns From Middle East] Foxnews.com</ref> U.S. officials in Jordan persuaded the teen to turn around and go home.

In December 2006, MySpace announced new measures to protect children from known sex offenders. Although precise details were not given they said that "tools" would be implemented to prevent known sex offenders from the USA creating a MySpace profile.<ref>Modèle:Cite newsgo.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace threatens record labels///news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6216736.stm</ref>

In February 2007, a U.S. District Judge in Texas dismissed a case when a family sued MySpace for negligence, fraud and misrepresentation; a girl in the family had been sexually assaulted by a man she met through MySpace, after she had misrepresented her age as 18 when she was 13. Regarding his dismissal of the case, U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks wrote: "If anyone had a duty to protect Julie Doe, it was her parents, not MySpace."<ref>Modèle:Cite newsgo.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace threatens record labels///www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/02/15/BUGEKO4VU01.DTL&type=business</ref>

www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2424879820070724?feedType=RSS&rpc=22&sp=true MySpace deletes 29,000 sex offenders]</ref> Hardline anti-pedophile organization Perverted Justice has praised Myspace for its efforts to combat pedophiles using their service.<ref>http://www.corporatesexoffenders.com/?pg=myspacecleanup</ref>//www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2424879820070724?feedType=RSS&rpc=22&sp=true MySpace deletes 29,000 sex offenders]</ref> Hardline anti-pedophile organization Perverted Justice has praised Myspace for its efforts to combat pedophiles using their service.<ref>http://www.corporatesexoffenders.com/?pg=myspacecleanup</ref>

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Social and cultural

Dave Itzkoff, in the June 2006 Playboy magazine, related his experiences of experimentation with membership in MySpace. Among his other criticisms, one pertains to the distance afforded by the Internet that emboldens members, such as females who feature photos of themselves in scant clothing on their profile pages or behave in ways they would not in person, and he indicated that this duplicity undercuts the central design of MySpace, namely, to bring people together. Itzkoff also referenced the addictive, time-consuming nature of the site, mentioning that the Playboy Playmate and MySpace member Julie McCullough, who was the first to respond to his add-friend request, pointedly referred to the site as "cybercrack". Itzkoff argued that MySpace gives many people access to a member’s life, without giving the time needed to maintain such relationships and that such relationships do not possess the depth of in-person relationships.

Furthermore, in terms of MySpace's potential for underhanded commercial exploitation, Itzkoff is particularly critical of the disturbing and fraudulent behavior of people who can contact a member, unsolicited, as when he was contacted by someone expressing a desire to socialize and date, but whose blog (to which Itzkoff was directed via subsequent emails) was found to be a solicitation for a series of commercial porn sites. Itzkoff is similarly critical of the more subtle commercial solicitations on the site, such as the banner ads and links to profiles and video clips that turn out to be, for example, commercials for new 20th Century Fox films. He also observed that MySpace’s much-celebrated music section is heavily weighted in favor of record labels rather than breakthrough musicians.

In relating criticism from another person, whom Itzkoff called "Judas," he illustrated that, while the goal of attempting to bring together people who might not otherwise associate with one another in real life may seem honorable, MySpace inherently violates a social contract only present when people interact face-to-face, rendering, in his opinion, the website nothing more than a passing fad:

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Politics

• Many political organizations have created Myspace accounts to keep in touch with and expand their membership base. These range from larger organizations like Greenpeace and the ACLU to smaller locally focused environmentalist groups and Food Not Bombs activists.
• Several historical political figures (from Napoleon to George Washington to Herbert Marcuse) have had accounts created to either raise awareness about their role in history or perhaps sometimes to behave more in jest as if those historical figures were actually posting messages and adding friends, etc.
• Many hopeful 2008 presidential candidates have set up MySpace profiles, presumably in an effort to snare younger voters. Most profiles feature photos, blogs, videos, and ways for viewers to get involved with campaigning. MySpace features these politicians' profiles on its front page in the "Cool New People" section, on what appears to be a random rotation.

Censorship

www.civic.moveon.org/pdf/myspace/ anti-censorship campaign against MySpace for the censoring of user-generated content].</ref>//www.civic.moveon.org/pdf/myspace/ anti-censorship campaign against MySpace for the censoring of user-generated content].</ref>

Stalking

www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-04-23-vt-stalking_N.htm?csp=1 Stalking 'definitely a problem' for women at college] from the USA Today, 04-23-07</ref>//www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-04-23-vt-stalking_N.htm?csp=1 Stalking 'definitely a problem' for women at college] from the USA Today, 04-23-07</ref>

MySpace China

texyt.com/MySpace+China+censors+politics+religion+064|title= MySpace now available in China - minus politics and religion|author= Lu Enjie|date= 2007-04-26|publisher= Texyt.com}}</ref> Users are also given the ability to report the "misconduct" of other users for offenses including "endangering national security, leaking state secrets, subverting the government, undermining national unity, and spreading rumors or disturbing the social order."<ref> MySpace.cn使用协议条款

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See also: Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China

International sites

Since early 2006, MySpace has offered the option to access the service in different regional versions. The alternative regional versions present automated content according to locality (e.g. UK users see other UK users as "Cool New People," and UK oriented events and adverts, etc.), offer local languages other than English, or accommodate the regional differences in spelling and conventions in the English-speaking world (e.g. United States: "favorites," mm/dd/yyyy; the rest of the world: "favourites," dd/mm/yyyy).

Sites currently offered are: www.myspace.com MySpace Global]//www.myspace.com MySpace Global] www.myspace.com MySpace Global]//au.myspace.com MySpace Australia] www.myspace.com MySpace Global]//br.myspace.com MySpace Brazil] (currently in beta) www.myspace.com MySpace Global]//ca.myspace.com MySpace Canada (in English)] (currently in beta) www.myspace.com MySpace Global]//cf.myspace.com MySpace Canada (in French)] (currently in beta) www.myspace.com MySpace Global]//myspace.cn MySpace China (in Chinese)] (currently in beta) www.myspace.com MySpace Global]//fr.myspace.com MySpace France] www.myspace.com MySpace Global]//fi.myspace.com MySpace Finland] www.myspace.com MySpace Global]//de.myspace.com MySpace Germany] (currently in beta) www.myspace.com MySpace Global]//ie.myspace.com MySpace Ireland] www.myspace.com MySpace Global]//la.myspace.com MySpace Latin America (in Spanish)] (currently in beta) www.myspace.com MySpace Global]//it.myspace.com MySpace Italy] (currently in beta) www.myspace.com MySpace Global]//jp.myspace.com MySpace Japan] (currently in beta) www.myspace.com MySpace Global]//mx.myspace.com MySpace Mexico] (currently in beta) www.myspace.com MySpace Global]//nl.myspace.com MySpace Netherlands] www.myspace.com MySpace Global]//nz.myspace.com MySpace New Zealand] www.myspace.com MySpace Global]//es.myspace.com MySpace Spain] (currently in beta) www.myspace.com MySpace Global]//uk.myspace.com MySpace UK] www.myspace.com MySpace Global]//latino.myspace.com MySpace USA (in Spanish)] (currently in beta) www.myspace.com MySpace Global]//us.myspace.com MySpace USA (in English)] (this is, in fact, identical to the "global" site)

MySpace is also looking at expansion into India, Korea, Greece and South Africa.

Musicians' rights and MySpace Terms of Use Agreement

Until June 2006, there was a concern amongst musicians, artists, and bands on MySpace such as songwriter Billy Bragg owing to the fine print within the user agreement that read, "You hereby grant to MySpace.com a non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense through unlimited levels of sublicensees) to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display, store, reproduce, transmit, and distribute such Content on and through the Services." The fine print brought particular concern as the agreement was being made with Murdoch's News Corporation. Billy Bragg brought the issue to the attention of the media during the first week of June 2006.<ref name="InquirerBragg">{{cite news money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/09/04/8384727/index.htm//www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/08/blly_bragg_myspace/ | publisher=The Register | title=Billy Bragg prompts MySpace Rethink | last=Orlowski | first=Andrew | date=2006-06-8 | accessdate=2006-09-12 }}</ref> Jeff Berman, a MySpace spokesman swiftly responded by saying, "Because the legalese has caused some confusion, we are at work revising it to make it very clear that MySpace is not seeking a license to do anything with an artist's work other than allow it to be shared in the manner the artist intends."

By June 27, 2006, MySpace had amended the user agreement with, "MySpace.com does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, 'Content') that you post to the MySpace Services. After posting your Content to the MySpace Services, you continue to retain all ownership rights in such Content, and you continue to have the right to use your Content in any way you choose."

Blocking

Many schools and public libraries in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Malaysia have restricted access to MySpace because it has become "such a haven for student gossip and malicious comments."<ref>"

   Schools race to restrict MySpace
   
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A Catholic school in New Jersey has even prohibited students from using MySpace at home, an action made to protect students from online predators as claimed by the school, although experts questioned the legality of such a ban. In Autumn 2005 Pope John XXIII Regional High School in Sparta Township, New Jersey made headlines by forbidding its students to have pages on MySpace or similar websites or face suspension or expulsion, even if only using the website outside of school.<ref>{{cite newstoday.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2006-07-11T154250Z_01_N11382172_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEDIA-MYSPACE.xml//www.tdn.com/articles/2006/01/22/top_story/news01.txt|title=The MySpace case|work=The Daily News, Longview, Washington|date=2006-01-22|accessdate=2006-02-15www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/13/nparty13.xml 'Let's trash the house' party girl in hiding]</ref>//www.mtv.com/news/articles/1512215/20051025/index.jhtml?headlines=true]</ref><ref>Blogging ban provokes a debate over cyberspace: Pope John H.S. demands that online profiles end, calls forums havens for sexual predators, Daily Record, October 24, 2005</ref>

On July 28 2006, the United States House of Representatives passed a controversial bill requiring libraries and schools receiving certain types of federal funding (E-rate) to prevent unsupervised minors from using chat rooms and social networking websites, such as MySpace. This bill, known as the Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006 (DOPA), was approved by a 410-15 vote in the United States House of Representatives but was not brought to a vote in the United States Senate. Since the Congressional session of its introduction expired, the bill must be reintroduced in either chamber to be voted upon again.

Although schools and public libraries try to prevent the use of MySpace, they are not always successful; students have been known to use web proxies in order to log in to the site.

www.cybersitter.com Solid Oak Software].//www.cybersitter.com Solid Oak Software].

Legal issues

In May 2006, Long Island, New York teenagers Shaun Harrison and Saverio Mondelli were charged with illegal computer access and attempted extortion of MySpace, after both had allegedly hacked into the site to steal the personal information of MySpace users before threatening to share the secrets of how they broke into the website unless MySpace paid them $150,000. Both teens were arrested by undercover Los Angeles police detectives posing as MySpace employees.<ref name="ElReg-TeenHack">{{cite news go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace_threatens_record_labels///www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/25/myspace_hack_charges/ | title = Teen hack suspects charged over MySpace extortion bid | last = Leyden | first = John | publisher = The Register | date= 2006-05-25 | accessdate = 2006-09-09 }}</ref>

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/13/nparty13.xml</ref>-£25,000<ref>{{cite news//www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/13/nparty13.xml</ref>-£25,000<ref>{{cite news go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace_threatens_record_labels///www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=449819&in_page_id=1879 | title = What REALLY happened at the Myspace party from hell | publisher = Daily Mail | date= 2007-04-21 | accessdate = 2007-04-22 }}</ref> of damage, such as cigarette butts, urine on clothing, and writing on the walls. The girl's parents, who were away at the time, had to move out of the house.<ref>{{cite news go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace_threatens_record_labels///www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=449819&in_page_id=1879 | title = What REALLY happened at the Myspace party from hell | publisher = Daily Mail | date= 2007-04-21 | accessdate = 2007-04-22 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/13/nparty13.xml 'Let's trash the house' party girl in hiding]</ref>//www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/13/nparty13.xml 'Let's trash the house' party girl in hiding]</ref>

Celebrities on MySpace

Some MySpace users have enjoyed a degree of fame due to their accounts. One example is Christine "ForBiddeN" Dolce's appearance on The Tyra Banks Show and her own Playboy pictorial in the October 2006 issue. MySpace's music section has also helped many amateur bands progress. One illustrative example is English band Arctic Monkeys, who owe some of their success to the publicity that MySpace generated for them. When asked about the popularity of the band's MySpace website in an interview with Prefix magazine, the band pointed out that they did not even know what MySpace was, and that their page had originally been created by their fans. It has been claimed that pop artist Lily Allen's fame is also due in part to her being promoted on MySpace. In response to an interview question on Triple J, in which she was asked if she was 'discovered by MySpace', Allen stated, "Not accurate at all, I had a record deal before I set up my MySpace account so, erm, that's... couldn't really be further from the truth."<ref>Modèle:Cite news go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace threatens record labels///www.abc.net.au/jtv/video/default.htm?clip=myspace</ref> Other MySpace celebrities include Tila Tequila and Jeffree Star as well as newly renowned Chris Crocker.

YouTube

YouTube first appeared on the web in early 2005, and it quickly gained popularity on MySpace due to MySpace users' ability to embed YouTube videos in their MySpace profiles. Realising the competitive threat to the new MySpace Videos service, MySpace banned embedded YouTube videos from its user profiles. MySpace users widely protested the ban, prompting MySpace to lift the ban shortly thereafter. But since then, links from each embedded video on MySpace to the home pages of the video on YouTube have been blocked making it more difficult to find the same videos on YouTube's website.<ref>{{cite web go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace_threatens_record_labels///www.techdirt.com/articles/20060110/0735214.shtml | title = So That's Why MySpace Blocked YouTube | accessdate = 2006-07-28 | author = Carlos | date= 2006-01-10 | publisher = Techdirt.com }}</ref>

adage.com/digital/article.php?article_id=110632 "YouTube Fastest Growing Website"] Advertising Age </ref> outgrowing MySpace's reach according to Alexa Internet.<ref>{{cite web//adage.com/digital/article.php?article_id=110632 "YouTube Fastest Growing Website"] Advertising Age </ref> outgrowing MySpace's reach according to Alexa Internet.<ref>{{cite web go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace_threatens_record_labels///www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=max&size=large&compare_sites=myspace.com&y=r&url=youtube.com#top | title = Info for YouTube.com | accessdate = 2006-07-26 | date= 2006-07-26 | publisher = Alexa.com }}</ref> In July 2006 several news organisations reported that YouTube had overtaken MySpace.<ref>{{cite web go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace_threatens_record_labels///technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1834036,00.html | title = YouTube overtakes MySpace | accessdate = 2006-07-31 | date= 2006-07-31 | publisher = Guardian Unlimited }}</ref> In a September 2006 investor meeting, News Corp. COO Peter Chernin claimed that virtually all modern Web applications (naming YouTube, Flickr, and Photobucket) were really just "driven off the back of MySpace" and that "we ought to be able to match them if not exceed them."<ref>{{cite web go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace_threatens_record_labels///www.techcrunch.com/2006/09/12/myspace-we-dont-need-web-20/ | title = MySpace: We don't need Web 2.0 | accessdate = 2006-10-10 | last = Kirkpatrick | first = Marshall | date= 2006-09-12 | publisher = TechCrunch }}</ref>

The Economy of MySpace

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• On August 8, 2006, search engine Google signed a $900 million deal to provide a Google search facility and advertising on MySpace.<ref name="BBCNews-GoogleNewsCorp">{{ cite news

go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace_threatens_record_labels///news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5254642.stm | title = Google signs $900m News Corp deal | publisher = BBC News | date= 2006-08-07 | accessdate = 2006-09-09 }}</ref><ref name="ElReg-GoogleMySpace">{{ cite news go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace_threatens_record_labels///www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/07/google_wins_myspace/ | title = Google pays $900m to monetise children via MySpace | publisher = The Register | last = Vance | first = Ashlee | date= 2006-08-07 | accessdate = 2006-09-09 }}</ref><ref name="GuardianBusiness-GoogleMySpace">{{ cite news go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspace_threatens_record_labels///business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1839333,00.html | title = Google to pay $900m for MySpace link-up | last = Clark | first = Andrew | publisher = Guardian Unlimited Business | date= 2006-08-08 | accessdate = 2006-09-09 }}</ref>

See also

• List of social networking websites
• MySpace Records
• The MySpace Movie
• Social network
• TeenSpot
• LiveJournal
• Social software
• MyDeathSpace.com
• Internet phenomenon
• AsianAve
• Bebo
• Buzznet

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Further reading

• Davis, Donald Carrington, MySpace Isn't Your Space: Expanding the Fair Credit Reporting Act to Ensure Accountability and Fairness in Employer Searches of Online Social Networking Services, 16 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 237 (2007).

bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/04838542.asp "Lost in MySpace: Log on, tune in, and hook up with 22 million people online"], The Boston Phoenix, July 22-28, 2005.//bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/04838542.asp "Lost in MySpace: Log on, tune in, and hook up with 22 million people online"], The Boston Phoenix, July 22-28, 2005. bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/04838542.asp "Lost in MySpace: Log on, tune in, and hook up with 22 million people online"], The Boston Phoenix, July 22-28, 2005.//www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid30132.aspx "You and your tech-chic: As of 2006, new media isn’t just for geeks anymore"], The Boston Phoenix, December 20, 2006.

• Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams. 2007. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. New York: Penguin.

External links

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