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MySpace Users Revolt Against Murdoch
arclightfire writes "Looks like Murdoch's News International have stired up a revolt within users of the MySpace file-sharing site they purchased for $629m (£355m) last July, reports the Independent; "Angry members of MySpace, the personal file-sharing website for young adults, are accusing Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation of censoring their postings and blocking their access to rival sites. The 38 million subscribers to MySpace...discovered that when they wrote to each other about rival video-swapping site YouTube, the words were automatically deleted, and attempts to download video images from YouTube led to blank screens. The intervention by News Corp in the traditionally open-access world of the web - in particular the alteration of personal user profiles - provoked a storm of angry posts...The protests gathered pace, and when 600 MySpace customers complained and a campaign began to boycott the site and relocate to rival sites such as Friendster, Linkedin, revver.com and Facebook.com, News Corp relented and restored the links.""
Totally off-topic, but hopefully Sirius is better than XM. I got my XM subscription this Xmas, and have decided in only two short weeks that XM seriously blows.
First, I find that it isn't "Ad free" like they say on their commercials. They regularly run commercials on several of the channels I've tried listening to. In addition, although they seem to be able to use the digital subcarrier to give the name of the station I am tuned to (Idoit designations such as "Fred", "Kiss", Boneyard"), they don't stream the artist/title like every FM station in my area does. Throw in the two facts that the DJ's rarely tell you who they just played, and the fact that they play a lot of songs/bands that aren't mainstream, and it can be very frustrating if you hear a song and want to check it out further. In addition, the "digital quality sound" is extremely inferior on my Bose system compared to the over-the-air FM stations. It sounds like most of the music is being played through a tin can.
All in all, I am very disappointed in the XM service, and probably will not renew when this subscription runs out.
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