MySpace bans Photobucket videos and slide shows

MYSPACE BANS PHOTOBUCKET VIDEOS AND SLIDE SHOWS
[SOURCE: Los Angeles Times, AUTHOR: Joseph Menn and Alana Semuels]
The struggle over how to generate more money from MySpace without killing its freewheeling style burst into the open Wednesday when the social networking site blocked videos its users had created with the aid of another popular website. News Corp.'s MySpace said it barred videos and slide shows created by some of Photobucket Inc.'s 40 million users. The problem is that some of the slide shows violated MySpace's no-outside-advertising policy because they contained paid promotions for "Spider-Man 3." The photo-sharing site posted an angry condemnation of MySpace's decision on its corporate blog, prompting complaints from many people who use the service to decorate their MySpace profile pages. They accused News Corp. of overreacting as it tries to preserve an ad monopoly on MySpace, which shows more pages than any other site.
http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-myspace12apr12,1,7988799.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-business
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