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R.I.P. MySpace

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40hz:
Like the guy who won and lost $100K in a poker game, it must be incredibly depressing to live with the certain knowledge you HAD it -and totally blew it.

Very sad...

Then again, considering how much they let the kiddies run riot over there, it probably serves them right.

f0dder:
But then again, considering how they let the kiddies run riot over there, it probably serves them right.-40hz (January 12, 2011, 08:23 AM)
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Yeah, they allowed people to use arbitrary HTML in their profiles, didn't they? That, or they had massive security vulnerabilities, but with the same end result: drive-by exploit heaven.

Bamse:
They have also been used for a CDN by website admins here and there. Typically those with cheap hosts. You could hotlink/embed MySpace pics. Don't know if they stopped that last few years but hints about their level of interest/competence regarding security and stuff. People lose respect for sites like that, technical aware laugh. Those in charge probably got too much money too fast and have been drunk and high ever since :)

True about many good bands popping up there but not really difficult to find alternatives or set up own site. Not a major loss for alternative music business.

40hz:
But then again, considering how they let the kiddies run riot over there, it probably serves them right.-40hz (January 12, 2011, 08:23 AM)
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Yeah, they allowed people to use arbitrary HTML in their profiles, didn't they? That, or they had massive security vulnerabilities, but with the same end result: drive-by exploit heaven.
-f0dder (January 12, 2011, 08:25 AM)
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Absolutely.  :Thmbsup:

I can't begin to describe the amount of grief I had to deal with at one point, cleaning up client PCs that got pooched courtesy of people cruising MySpace on their lunch hour.

Can't wait to see where some of the idiots who were still hanging in there end up roosting once they shut it down completely...

app103:
The only thing Myspace really has going for it is music and they are in the process of destroying that, too. They did buy iLike.com, which came with garageband.com, and one of the first things they did was shut down garageband.com, driving most of those bands to the competition...last.fm.

Can't wait to see where some of the idiots who were still hanging in there end up roosting once they shut it down completely...
-40hz (January 12, 2011, 09:29 AM)
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Regular users will probably move to Facebook, and bands will probably move to Last.fm and those with CC licensed works to Jamendo, unless something even better comes along.

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