MySpace restrictions upset some users

The Web's largest social network has gradually imposed limits on the software tools that users can embed in their pages.
The New York Times

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[Java Jefe]

Maybe this will cut the crap out of myspace...

Honestly, I'm glad that Myspace is putting a damper on what you can get on the profiles...not from a commercial standpoint, but because a lot of Myspace pages look AWEFUL! Maybe if users didn't have so much damn freedom, stuff like this (http://www.myspace.com/soybuddha) wouldn't be around to make my eyes bleed.

[Gayle Edwards]

Oh, come on...

Yes... That page certainly is a contender for "...WHAT THE..." web-site of the year. But, honestly, I think our opinion is purely a matter of personal-choice, and arbitrary-taste. Regardless of what you, or I, may think... I cannot for the life of me, actually, understand why anyone would seriously think that such sites should, actually, be taken-down.

So, I hope you were just being, facetiously, humorous.

By the way... The doctor says the bandages should come off my eyes in about a week!

[mn39202]

What would really be awesome...

If Google were to stop indexing MySpace. I hate getting search results from this festering junk pile.

[shoffmueller]

Freedom? Rights?

From the story:

"...recently they have been cutting down our freedom and taking away our rights slowly..."

What an entitlement attidude this kid has.

[ralfthedog]

Freedom! Rights!

The users of any service have the freedom to use it as they would. If that service chooses to restrict the rights of the user, the user is entitled to tell everyone how much that service bites the big pickle and move there business to a more free service.

beyond entitlement, if a company provides bad service you have a moral obligation not to do business with them.

MySpace, RIP.

[unknown unknown]

MySpace is a fad and will go the way of all fads and dinsaurs

It's inevitable that MySpace's users with move on to other things and leave MySpace behind in the process. Clamping down on what made the site popular in the first place will only serve to quicken the moving of it's users to other services and eventually the next hot thing.

[paulsecic]

space

I don't use it. Its too weird for me.

[SeizeCTRL]

Yeah Yeah

People have been saying this for 2+ years now and yet MySpace continues to grow.

[rmarsh01]

If they do not like

if they do not like the restrictions of Myspace they can always register thier own domain name. That way they can sell what ever they want.

[Professor Cornbread]

Buy your own webhosting

Why do people think they get to whine about the rules of MySpace, it is a free service. If you don't like how they operate, pay the modest ammout that it takes to own your own website. You don't have any 'rights' with a free host. Besides, yourname.com looks far more respectable than myspace.com/yourname_with_random_numb3r5

[fcekuahd]

Who the hell needs MySpace?

Seriously every ISP account comes with web server space. Create your own site. What's the point of using MySpace or Geocities?

[groink_hi]

It is like they say in the business world...

Three reasons: Location, location, location.

The trend on the Internet is for people to move into popular domains and attempt to use them for their own gain - and usually breaking the site's policies in the process. The idea is to gain visibility by riding on a very popular domain. Besides MySpace, this is happening on YouTube, Wikipedia and just about every other community-based system.

Like in my case, I help run a wiki that specializes in Eastern Asian TV dramas, and is the #1 site on the 'net regarding this genre. Then suddenly, people start posting information on Russian dramas, movies, and so forth. And I receive many messages from people asking to open our system up to European TV shows, Australian shows, and even American shows. Again, they're doing this because it is easier and beneficial for them to jump on an existing system that is already popular.

If these people end up having their way, every domain would basically become a single-drawer filing cabinet labeled A-Z, with everything tossed into it in no particular order. I just wish people would learn to respect the guidelines and policies of a given domain.

[gggg sssss]

goose and egg

myspace is nothing but a web server. It has no content of its own. It started as a free community service, it exists now soley to make a buck off the content of its registered users and visitors. It flogs that traffic to others. No more registered userrs, no more fringe contnet, no more traffic. What are they going to put up in its place? Fox news clips? THAT will draw traffic. Can't sell a lot of ads there. Murdock wants to kill the golden goose. Morons.

[SeizeCTRL]

Bandwidth & Servers

Last time I checked, they aren't FREE. Then programmers, tech support etc... those people don't work for free. As a business model, a completely FREE site with no means of revenue will not work. You have to have some way of making money to stay in business.

[SeizeCTRL]

LOL

"We find it incredibly ironic and frustrating that a company that has built its assets on the back of its users is turning around and telling people they can't do anything that violates terms of service," he said.


Am I the only one who finds this funny? "TELLING PEOPLE THEY CAN'T DO ANYTHING THAT VIOLATES TERMS OF SERVICE" DUH! Isn't that what ToS is for? A set of rules that you acknowledge when signing up? That's like getting angry at a cop for giving you a speeding ticket cause you were doing 90mph in a 65mph zone. It's not the cops fault that you broke the law.