No more photobucket on Myspace

[highway23]

http://blog.photobucket.com/blog/2007/04/breaking_news_p.html

Breaking news: Posting from Photobucket to MySpace

A Message to our Customers

Today MySpace made the decision to prevent Photobucket users from posting their videos and remixes to their MySpace pages.

This action by MySpace means that all of the videos and remixes you created will no longer show up on your MySpace profile, blog and comments section. More specifically, if you attempt to add new videos or remixes to your profile, they will be removed.

We are not happy about this and we’re pretty sure you’re not happy either. We appreciate that you have invested hundreds of thousands of hours using the editing, remixing and management tools and features available only on Photobucket. In particular, you've all been really embracing videos at Photobucket -- to the tune of 50,000 video uploads a day, which is great. Rest assured that your content is being kept safe in your Photubucket album even though it may disappear from your MySpace pages.

We believe that by limiting your ability to personalize your pages with content from any source, MySpace is contradicting the very belief of personal and social media. MySpace became successful because of the creativity of you, its users, and because it offered a forum for self-expression. By severely restricting this freedom, MySpace is showing that it considers you as a commodity which it can treat as it sees fit.

What can you do?

Vote with your feet and your keyboards. Tell MySpace how you feel.

(1) Write to mscontact@myspace.com or click here to give them your thoughts.

(2) Send a MySpace bulletin to all your friends telling them to also give MySpace their feedback.

(3) You can also post a comment on this blog.

[Screwtape]

considering that they are owned by a media group now, this is no surprise

[DanaReevesLungs]

Poor bitches...gonna have to re-upload their pictures and videos. Let's see if Al Sharpton leeches onto this story. :)

[Death Metal Moe]

Poor bitches...gonna have to re-upload their pictures and videos. Let's see if Al Sharpton leeches onto this story. :)

He'll just to transfer nappy_headed_hos.jpg over himself. He's gonna be pissed.

[sknight]

I wonder what the age group of the people that care about this is.

[highway23]

It's not that I necessarily care about this, but I'm going out on a limb to think that many baggers that have a Myspace could have a bunch of files on photobucket that they use.

Doesn't really have anything to do with age

[MJMANDALAY]

I have 1000's of photos in photobucket,in mulitple free accounts, its all I use to post here and on others myspace. I am going to have to look into this. This will suck if its true.

[sniper]

http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-photobucket-protests-myspace-blockade-myspace-claims-posts-violate-poli/

Photobucket Protests MySpace Blockade; MySpace Claims Posts Violate Policy

* Posted by Staci D. Kramer
* Wed 11 Apr 2007 09:34 AM PST

MySpace continues to block services that embed advertising. The latest is Photobucket, which MySpace claims is inserting ads in video slideshows and thus violating the MySpace terms of service. Last month. The FIM site caused some consternation when MySpace uber-friend Tila Tequila was told not to use the Hookah player and music store from Indie911. MySpace execs said at the time that it violates the TOS to embed widgets that sell or advertise without authorization or a partnership with the company. The same goes for embedding ads in slideshows.
-- Photobucket alerted its users to the posting problem on its official blog, explaining that new videos and remixes would be removed from MySpace profiles and castigating the company for “contradicting the very belief of personal and social media. ... By severely restricting this freedom, MySpace is showing that it considers you as a commodity which it can treat as it sees fit.” Users were urged to contact MySpace, to ask their friends to do the same and to post comments. The post also mentioned that photos are unaffected. (via GigaOm)
Two things that go unmentioned: advertising and Photobucket’s current evaluation of its sale prospects.
MySpace statement: MySpace tries to spell it out in a just-issued statement that refers to the TOS issue mentioned above: “Photobucket recently began running an ad-sponsored slideshow and encouraged users to post these ads in bulletins and profiles throughout the community. We spoke to the company about their actions, but they refused to respect our community’s terms and we had no choice but to disable their service. MySpace does not block third party embeds or services that abide by our terms of use. We support the freedom of expression and creativity of our community and must continue to protect the experience expected by our users.”

This issue is not going away anytime soon, especially as long as some business models are based on distribution across networks that rely on protecting their turf for their own business model.
Update: A source familiar with the situation says the bulk of Photobucket is abiding and that the sponsored slideshows are the problem; the videos are being blocked along with all the slideshows because they can’t be separated technologically without Photobucket’s help. MySpace would block only the sponsored slideshows if it could, the source said. That could be a distinction without a difference for MySpace/Photobucket users already up in arms.


Wait.... doesn't ImageShack link every file to their site... and all the stupid theme makers and shit I see advertise where to "get your own myspace layout"
Me thinks fox media wants to buy out Photobucket but not at the $300 mil it wants. That being said, isn't this illegal if that's the case?

[LastDeadMouse]

Wait, is this just videos and remixes, or plain images, too?