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MySpace Folds under Legal Pressure

The battle against digital piracy continues, only this time it is the online community website, MySpace, that battles against illegal content. News Corp, owner of MySpace, announced that new technology has been implemented into the site, and that it intends at stopping users from uploading copyrighted music. MySpace offers users from all over the world to share digital content with each other and to form communities based on mutual interests.

Sharing illegal content is easy using MySpace`s platform, and now the company decided to put an end to it all. The decision came after growing pressure from music labels. The music industry wanted sites like MySpace and YouTube to fight users that upload copyrighted materials, and it seems that the legal pressure bared fruit. The new technology that MySpace licensed compares digital data uploaded to the site with Gracenote`s database of copyrighted material and blocks any illegal attempt to put unauthorized content on the site.

If MySpace`s new technology happens to be effective at stopping such uploads, the popularity of the site might suffer drastically. People enjoy sharing content and exploring other people`s uploaded files. If these files be banned from MySpace, the face and shape of the site might change completely. MySpace is plans to start selling unsigned band`s music on the site in an effort to replace the attractiveness of the available content. MySpace also noted that users that try to upload illegal content repeatedly will have their accounts deleted and removed from the site.