MySpace Blocks Photobucket

Sad new spread out on Tuesday : MySpace decided to block the videos and photo slideshows its users create, store and edit with Photobucket. MySpace continues to allow its users to post individual Photobucket pictures.

This block was response to an ad-sponsored slideshow that Photobucket recently began running and that it encouraged MySpace users to post in their profiles, violating MySpace's terms of service, the social networking site said in a statement.

"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's statement reads.

Also, Photobucket claims in a statement that MySpace never contacted it about this issue. It also blasted MySpace for its decision, saying that according to "conservative estimates" half of all MySpace page views contain Photobucket content.

Photobucket, founded in 2003, has 39 million registered users and ranked 34th among comScore's top 50 U.S. Web properties in March, with almost 16.8 million unique visitors.

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