askaninja.com— The guys at Ask A ninja have joined the growing number of us fed up with MySpace's totalitarian world view and astonishing lack of foresight. Check out their very well articulated take on the matter.
Feb 3, 2007View in Crawl 4
broomett:a) you posted this exact same comment twice, so you obviously just want diggs, andb) stop with the stupid apple hate. apple is not myspace, and has NOTHING to do with this.
Have you seen the s**t load of ads they have? The users are just as valuable as money to them. The users are an essential part of their business. Yes, as a business they have every right to police its site the way they want, but its users have every right to take their business elsewhere. Which is why digg stories or AskaNinja are doing a good thing by raising awareness, which will increase demand that hopefully stops lame s**t like censorship. Perhaps you don't understand how supply and demand works? Maybe you should stop laughing.
It's not "censorship", it's straight up filtering.Why?What keeps MySpace free? The advertisers, right? Now think about the concept of Revver and how it applies to making video-producers money. It appends an advertisement to the video. So let's say you're hosting a video on your page at MySpace, and the ad displays at the end of your video. If a user clicks on it, you just generated revenue for both yourself and for Revver, but what about for MySpace? Zilch. They just acted as the host, and Revver as the parasite. Of course this breaks the terms of use that you agreed to follow when joining MySpace because this acts as third-party advertising. Of course, nobody ever remembers the terms they agreed to, right? Seriously, stop being selfish and saying "Why does MySpace censor this..." and ask yourself why a site like Revver would be blocked. Wouldn't it make sense to you to block third-party advertisers on YOUR website, if you had one?So either stop complaining, or get off the site. Simple as that. If you don't like asparagus, why would you force yourself to keep eating it? If you get a bunch of tickets for speeding, why do you continue to speed? It's all in the logic. You just have to open up and think about things in more perspectives than just your own selfish one.I hope I don't offend anyone with this comment, but I'm just sick and tired of hearing people come up with conspiracies about things and blow them up to way out of whatever proportions they believed them to be in the first place. Just relax, find another video service that doesn't break the terms, and be happy. Otherwise, get the f**k off MySpace already.
much needs to be done here. a myspace alternative needs to be found and a campaign to promote that instead of myspace needs to be launched. as of last week, myspace is the biggest thing on the internet. more hits than any other website EVER. more hits than google. more hits than Jesus. this is serious. and myspace (news corp) won't do anything unless it hurts their budget.
Net Neutrality isn't just about the priority of packets. Network Neutrality is about giving each person and server the same speed and access to everyone. Net Neutrality forces ISP's to be fair when an Internet user accesses a website; whether it be a competitor or not. The key word there is "ISP". MySpace is not an ISP.Eh. I'm deleting my MySpace account. Not because of the Ninja, but more along the lines of what they're doing is messed up. Tom can lick the sweatiest part of the bottom of my prostate.
You, sir, are an idiot.Net Neutrality is a capitalist plot to allow the corporations control over the information highway. It forces ISP's to be fair, yes - by giving people rights over a public and un-privatized resource if they're willing to pay for it.
they have been doing this for a long time, why is this such a big deal now? mabey its because they don't want tons of pron links everywhere.even things like aim: get blocked
I found that Myspace blocked all my links to a Geocites page I made years & years ago. Stubborn as I am I made a page to redirect to what it was blocking...
Simple. It's a given that they WANT the video on Myspace. Well, in the past you could put a video on Youtube, Revver or wherever and EMBED that video in your Myspace page. Not anymore. Now you are FORCED to use Myspace video. Myspace will put a commercial, just like on TV, in that video. IF you get a million hits like the Ninja, that commericial will make thousands and thousands of dollars. The NInja won't see a dime of that.
windwakerFeb 3, 2007
broomett:a) you posted this exact same comment twice, so you obviously just want diggs, andb) stop with the stupid apple hate. apple is not myspace, and has NOTHING to do with this.
teethmanFeb 3, 2007
Have you seen the s**t load of ads they have? The users are just as valuable as money to them. The users are an essential part of their business. Yes, as a business they have every right to police its site the way they want, but its users have every right to take their business elsewhere. Which is why digg stories or AskaNinja are doing a good thing by raising awareness, which will increase demand that hopefully stops lame s**t like censorship. Perhaps you don't understand how supply and demand works? Maybe you should stop laughing.
pandawebFeb 3, 2007
what you could do is type the ip in the link instead of the actual addressso instead of<a class="user" href="http://revver.com">http://revver.com</a>you can put<a class="user" href="http://8.3.209.73">http://8.3.209.73</a>myspace will not filter that out
jo3designFeb 5, 2007
It's not "censorship", it's straight up filtering.Why?What keeps MySpace free? The advertisers, right? Now think about the concept of Revver and how it applies to making video-producers money. It appends an advertisement to the video. So let's say you're hosting a video on your page at MySpace, and the ad displays at the end of your video. If a user clicks on it, you just generated revenue for both yourself and for Revver, but what about for MySpace? Zilch. They just acted as the host, and Revver as the parasite. Of course this breaks the terms of use that you agreed to follow when joining MySpace because this acts as third-party advertising. Of course, nobody ever remembers the terms they agreed to, right? Seriously, stop being selfish and saying "Why does MySpace censor this..." and ask yourself why a site like Revver would be blocked. Wouldn't it make sense to you to block third-party advertisers on YOUR website, if you had one?So either stop complaining, or get off the site. Simple as that. If you don't like asparagus, why would you force yourself to keep eating it? If you get a bunch of tickets for speeding, why do you continue to speed? It's all in the logic. You just have to open up and think about things in more perspectives than just your own selfish one.I hope I don't offend anyone with this comment, but I'm just sick and tired of hearing people come up with conspiracies about things and blow them up to way out of whatever proportions they believed them to be in the first place. Just relax, find another video service that doesn't break the terms, and be happy. Otherwise, get the f**k off MySpace already.
tomboysFeb 14, 2007
the Ninja is sexy... and I agree with him!
beefbaloneyFeb 14, 2007
much needs to be done here. a myspace alternative needs to be found and a campaign to promote that instead of myspace needs to be launched. as of last week, myspace is the biggest thing on the internet. more hits than any other website EVER. more hits than google. more hits than Jesus. this is serious. and myspace (news corp) won't do anything unless it hurts their budget.
captaincumshotFeb 17, 2007
Net Neutrality isn't just about the priority of packets. Network Neutrality is about giving each person and server the same speed and access to everyone. Net Neutrality forces ISP's to be fair when an Internet user accesses a website; whether it be a competitor or not. The key word there is "ISP". MySpace is not an ISP.Eh. I'm deleting my MySpace account. Not because of the Ninja, but more along the lines of what they're doing is messed up. Tom can lick the sweatiest part of the bottom of my prostate.
Closed AccountApr 2, 2007
Um, what? MySpace is NOT the biggest thing on the internet, Yahoo.com is. Then MSN, then Google, then YouTube, THEN MySpace (then Jesus).
Closed AccountApr 13, 2007
You, sir, are an idiot.Net Neutrality is a capitalist plot to allow the corporations control over the information highway. It forces ISP's to be fair, yes - by giving people rights over a public and un-privatized resource if they're willing to pay for it.
naturalorangeJul 26, 2007
they have been doing this for a long time, why is this such a big deal now? mabey its because they don't want tons of pron links everywhere.even things like aim: get blocked
simpleprimateAug 27, 2007
I found that Myspace blocked all my links to a Geocites page I made years & years ago. Stubborn as I am I made a page to redirect to what it was blocking...
teruchanOct 12, 2007
Simple. It's a given that they WANT the video on Myspace. Well, in the past you could put a video on Youtube, Revver or wherever and EMBED that video in your Myspace page. Not anymore. Now you are FORCED to use Myspace video. Myspace will put a commercial, just like on TV, in that video. IF you get a million hits like the Ninja, that commericial will make thousands and thousands of dollars. The NInja won't see a dime of that.
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