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Whats up with the folks from MySpace? Whats going on? They're being antisocial, blasphemous, even eccentric! MySpace has introduced restrictions on users' ability to flaunt the values of social production! Nick Carr explains: MySpace has restricted its members' ability to stream on their pages videos hosted at Photobucket. A clear violation of the spirit of Web 2.0 - the sixties got free love; we get free widgets - the move has set off an outcry in the blogosphere. A revolt, we're told, may be in the offing, as fed-up MySpacers pull up stakes and strike out for unfenced territories, where the deer and the antelope play. Can you believe it! Who do the folks at MySpace think they are? They're harming consumers, stifling innovation and destroying freedom. Whats going to happen to starving artists that give away their copyrighted works for free because nobody will buy them? They might have to pay for other kinds of advertising, and ramp up ongoing efforts to sign with major labels/ distributors (while writing and singing about the non-importance of monetary exchanges and copyrights of course).
Shocking, just shocking...
posted by Noel Le @ 6:55 PM | Free Culture Movement
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