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Post by stuhuggett on Jul 9, 2006 16:38:12 GMT 1
I put up another bare-bones Myspace page about six weeks back, so that I could still use Myspace to view the homepages of bands etc (as you can't access pictures, blogs etc if you're not a Myspace member). But I used it just now to send a message, and it's always been searchable (some band found me there), so if you've seen me back online and wondered why I'd not made any Friend Requests, it's only 'cos I still find Myspace a monumental waste of time. It's also more productive to visit bands' homepages more often than just logging onto your own page to see if you've had any interesting messages or bulletins (to which I always found the answer to be 'No'). So that's all...
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Post by the colonial on Jul 9, 2006 20:28:50 GMT 1
He is a very nice man that Billy Bragg.
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Post by stuhuggett on Jul 9, 2006 21:16:41 GMT 1
There was a photo of me and Billy Bragg in the NME once. Well, a photo of Billy Bragg and S*M*A*S*H playing a gig on the back of a truck, with me in the crowd. You couldn't see my face, but I'm sure I looked great anyway.
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Myspace
Jul 28, 2006 15:27:09 GMT 1
Post by stuhuggett on Jul 28, 2006 15:27:09 GMT 1
I just thought I'd check my Myspace page (current number of Friends = 1), but got this:
"Invalid Friend ID. This user has either cancelled their membership, or their account has been deleted."
So that's told me then! Anyone else's account vanished? I tried re-entering my page through my friend's one, but hers has gone too! Lucky I wasn't really using it much...
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Myspace
Jul 28, 2006 16:42:13 GMT 1
Post by caroline on Jul 28, 2006 16:42:13 GMT 1
Wouldn't worry about it, Stu (not that I imagine you were sobbing into your keyboard!) - MySpace has been on the fritz all day...expect it'll sort itself out soon.
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Myspace
Jul 28, 2006 16:58:30 GMT 1
Post by stuhuggett on Jul 28, 2006 16:58:30 GMT 1
I know it'd been playing up earlier today, but accidentally deleting accounts could be a big problem for them: I dunno if they'd be able to get everyone's pages back online as they were beforehand. If I remain off, I might as well stay off this time, having proved to my satisfaction how the Friend-Request part works (ie that people, or mainly bands, just trawl geographic areas of Myspace sporadically in order to boost their friend-count). In those couple of months I had another page up, I had two requests from bands I'd never heard of (who didn't know any of our real friends either), and none from anyone we know. Losing their Myspace page is gonna upset a lot of The Kids though!
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Myspace
Jul 31, 2006 11:47:40 GMT 1
Post by caroline on Jul 31, 2006 11:47:40 GMT 1
OUT-LAW News, 31/07/2006
Billy Bragg has paid tribute to social networking giant MySpace after persuading it to change its terms and conditions. The site is owned by owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and changed its terms after lobbying by Bragg.
"With respect to the guys at MySpace I have to accept that within a week of me writing a letter to Music Week they had complied with my suggestion to change their terms and conditions, so more power to them, I respect that," Bragg told OUT-LAW. "I think MySpace acted in the spirit of the internet."
Bragg has been campaigning for MySpace to change its terms and conditions, which seemed to give rights to music posted there to the Murdoch-backed company. Late last week the site did change its rules to reflect Bragg's wishes.
The new terms and conditions make it clear that the company renounces all ownership rights to musicians' material. Previously, the rules had seemed to assert the company's control over material posted there, though the company claimed that that view was a misinterpretation of the rules.
Bragg had taken down his music from the site when he realised what the terms actually meant. "Sorry there's no music," his MySpace site read until now, "once an artist posts up any content (including songs), it then belongs to My Space (AKA Rupert Murdoch) and they can do what they want with it, throughout the world without paying the artist."
Previously, the rules said that a user would "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 new conditions read: "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."
"I think the thing I'm most delighted about is that the principle of the right of the producer of the material to ownership and the right to exploit their material seems to have been established on the largest internet community site of them all, which is MySpace, and that's really what I was most importantly trying to do," Bragg said in an interview.
Bragg is as famous for his left wing politics as for his music, which includes 'New England', a hit for Kirsty MacColl. He helped found left-wing pop pressure group Red Wedge in the 1980s and performed widely at benefits for striking miners.
"I want this to be an industry standard now," said Bragg. "There is a danger when corporations try to work out how to make money out of the internet. That is a danager, isn't it? The last thing we want is for people posting on their sites to have to have a lawyer sitting beside them."
The new terms and conditions state that posting material automatically grants MySpace a limited licence to use and modify the content, but says that this is purely a technical issue. "Without this licence, MySpace.com would be unable to provide the MySpace services," said the terms.
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Jul 31, 2006 18:36:30 GMT 1
Post by stuhuggett on Jul 31, 2006 18:36:30 GMT 1
For what it's worth, my Myspace page came back online again a day later.
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Myspace
Jul 31, 2006 22:51:50 GMT 1
Post by carrie on Jul 31, 2006 22:51:50 GMT 1
for the first time yesterday i did a myspace quiz, 'which subculture are you', the result was goth. i laughed tried another, got the same result(something to do with dyeing hair black i think), so there you go.
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Post by stuhuggett on Aug 5, 2006 0:19:39 GMT 1
Goth!
Meanwhile, Myspace say: "Share your photos to let friends and other members see who you are... Photos may not contain nudity, violent or offensive material, or copyrighted images. If you violate these terms your account will be deleted."
Myspace is full of shared but copyrighted images! Those News International drones clearly aren't paying attention. An offensive Myspace would be even more popular. "VIEW all of MUSSOLINI'S Videos" etc. Wait 'til Murdoch thinks of it. I'm warning you!
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Myspace
Sept 4, 2006 14:45:09 GMT 1
Post by caroline on Sept 4, 2006 14:45:09 GMT 1
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Myspace
Sept 4, 2006 18:40:31 GMT 1
Post by stuhuggett on Sept 4, 2006 18:40:31 GMT 1
So, how many songs at present can a band offer for free download on their Myspace page, and how many are for streaming only? I'm just reading this story as saying that all a band's songs on their page will become downloadable, for a fee. Though if Myspace are taking a cut of this fee, that does tie people into some kind of financial contract with Myspace in order to have their music online, which could lead to the worry I mentioned ages ago that Myspace would have the ability to use a band's music as it wishes. I guess we'll have to wait 'til later this year and see what contracts are offered to bands who are already using Myspace. But yeah, it's no real suprise that they'll now be making money out of unsigned bands' music, as well as through selling advertising space on the site. I expect that, if you've got a Myspace music page already, and decide not to make your songs downloadable for a fee (though I'm sure most bands will take the money) that you may not be able to have a streaming-only page, and would have to exit Myspace? It would make sense for at least one song from a band to still be available as a free download, but Myspace may be counting every penny here. Wait & see?
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Post by stuhuggett on Nov 28, 2006 8:27:44 GMT 1
So what's infected Myspace, and caused parties such as The Crayons to be bulletinning Sex-Meds spam?
By the way, the first person I saw whose account had been hi-jacked by spam was the other 'Stuart', and I just assumed he was spending too long on Myspace...
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Myspace
Nov 28, 2006 11:05:47 GMT 1
Post by caroline on Nov 28, 2006 11:05:47 GMT 1
The omniscient 'Tom' explains all. (Without capitalisation, which just makes me twitch..!): "are you finding bulletins in your list that you didn't post? maybe comments sent to your friends that you didn't post? you can stop this by changing your password! a spammer has access to your account. they're using it to market their junk to your friends via YOUR bulletins and YOUR comments. fight back by changing your password!! now how did they get your password? it's called phishing. somewhere on myspace you clicked on a link, profile, page - something, and you saw the myspace login page. but wait - it wasn't really the myspace login page. it was a FAKE LOGIN PAGE. that fake page was created by a spammer who is waiting for you to enter your email and password. once you've done that, he's stores your info. then he runs scripts to send bulletin spam and comment spam on myspace. so don't fall for the trap - check the address bar at the top of the page and make sure you never login unless you're on "myspace.com". to be totally safe, type 'myspace.com' everytime you see the login page. if you type in myspace.com, you'll know you're on the right login page. p.s. if you see a friend posting junk on their bulletins, send them a link to my blog so they know what's up ! look at these screen shots for examples. in these two cases, the spammer used a myspace profile (so the link still says myspace), but its not the login.myspace page - its a profile page with code in it made to look like a login page. example 1 example 2 example 3 you may be looking at these and thinking how can i ever tell the differnece btween the real login.myspace.com page and one of these fakes? its a subtle difference! answer: NEVER login on this page. if you are logged out of myspace, just type www.myspace.com yourself, and then you'll know the login page is real!!"
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Myspace
Nov 28, 2006 14:06:43 GMT 1
Post by marcusjr on Nov 28, 2006 14:06:43 GMT 1
Back to myspace's foray into the music industry I think the big question will be one of publishing and whether Fox will be offering that as well, that is the point for me that it becomes a bit more worrying.
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Post by stuhuggett on Nov 29, 2006 1:08:19 GMT 1
I've got a feeling I may already have done that imitation MySpace logging-in thing... Hope not! If I fall victim to this, I'll just spam the fuckers back! Cock in your Inbox! Um, I may have been drinking...
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Post by carrie on Feb 6, 2007 18:46:07 GMT 1
ewwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! evanescence(?spelling) want to be my friend. why damn it? tell me i'm not alone..... please........
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Post by caroline on Feb 6, 2007 18:56:06 GMT 1
Goth.
*runs away to avoid being slapped*
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Post by carrie on Feb 6, 2007 19:15:50 GMT 1
THEY ASKED ME!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by caroline on Feb 6, 2007 19:21:45 GMT 1
I know.
Cos you're a goth.
;D
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Myspace
Apr 18, 2007 14:11:51 GMT 1
Post by stuhuggett on Apr 18, 2007 14:11:51 GMT 1
Is it too early to note that the Myspace phenomenon has peaked? Despite it being the tabloid's bugbear of the week.
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Myspace
Oct 17, 2007 12:40:35 GMT 1
Post by stuhuggett on Oct 17, 2007 12:40:35 GMT 1
Er, could people stop spamming my Myspace profile with Macy's gift-card and films of women in bikinis please? Or you get named & shamed! (Or just check my profile - I'm actually having trouble getting the Library computer to delete the spam, so I'm giving up for a while...)
[That's odd, I can't delete any spam from my Gmail account either. Hmmm.]
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Myspace
Oct 17, 2007 13:19:07 GMT 1
Post by caroline on Oct 17, 2007 13:19:07 GMT 1
Er, could people stop spamming my Myspace profile with Macy's gift-card and films of women in bikinis please? Or you get named & shamed! (Or just check my profile - I'm actually having trouble getting the Library computer to delete the spam, so I'm giving up for a while...) [That's odd, I can't delete any spam from my Gmail account either. Hmmm.] I think the odd messages mean that people's accounts have been hacked by nasty software- I got a plausible-ish video comment from someone the other day, but when I clicked on it, my anti-virus software went nutso... I think what happens when accounts get hacked is that the spammers change the log-in details so that the account holder can't get back in, and then use it to send out lots more spam, in the hopes that more people will be sucked in to clicking the link/giving out their log-in details. Anyway, chances are, if you're receiving that sort of stuff from people you know, it's not them sending it, and you shouldn't click on anything, or give out any information. Anyone better informed on how this kind of thing works, please feel free to give Stu a less garbled version! (Btw, if my Myspace ever starts sending out weird shit, do please tell me...I try to be careful, but you never know!)
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Myspace
Oct 18, 2007 12:29:49 GMT 1
Post by stuhuggett on Oct 18, 2007 12:29:49 GMT 1
Actually, Reuben once told me that your Myspace account is most likely to be sending spam to people if you've already foolishly clicked on tempting spam on Myspace already (I guess the old "Myspace won't let me post my nude photos, but foloow this link..." etc etc) - I'm not saying that any of my Myspace friends I'm receiving spam Comments from have done that, but, well....
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Oct 18, 2007 21:26:22 GMT 1
Post by alfie on Oct 18, 2007 21:26:22 GMT 1
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Oct 24, 2008 14:58:33 GMT 1
Post by stuhuggett on Oct 24, 2008 14:58:33 GMT 1
I may be being dim, but where MySpace have re-designed their Music Players on musicians' pages, whereabouts is the download function now? Is it the farthest box on the right of each song, with that icon of an arrow pointing down? In which case, I'm struggling to find an example of a musician who's enabled their tracks to be downloadable to test this out, unless our computer's playing up.
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Myspace
Oct 24, 2008 15:26:33 GMT 1
Post by Reuben on Oct 24, 2008 15:26:33 GMT 1
No it's not just you, I can't work it out ether! I think Murdoch has stoped anyone from downloading anything from Myspace, not sure why.
And there was nothing wrong with the old player, I don't understand why it was changed?
If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
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Myspace
Oct 24, 2008 15:34:55 GMT 1
Post by stuhuggett on Oct 24, 2008 15:34:55 GMT 1
It's strange, 'cos the figure for 'Downloads today' is still in the box, but every one I've looked at says Zero!
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Post by stuhuggett on Jan 9, 2009 14:40:50 GMT 1
MySpace keeps crashing the computer, but I'm going back in to try and drag some more gig information out. Wish me luck, I may be gone some time...
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Post by stuhuggett on Mar 9, 2009 14:36:50 GMT 1
Interesting MySpace bulletin from The Pipettes this morning:
Song censorship We just want to apologise for our songs on Myspace being reduced to pointless thirty second snippets of them (except our self-released remix track, we rule). This has nothing to do with us and has happened without our permission. Due to the nature of this and the fact that it's happened to a few other bands with Major Label releases, we are course mumbling that (maybe) this is Major Label activity to get you to buy the track, what with the music industry being what it is. This may not be the case, of course, but irrespective, we are doing all we can to investigate and rectify.
Obviously those tracks are very old now, so you probably have them, or if you don't, it's because you have no idea who we are - and so for you we're trying to get them back to full song-length versions.
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