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.
Note, photos can still be posted from Photobucket to MySpace. This action by MySpace appears to only affect videos and remixes.
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.
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