The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #151166   Message #3536072
Posted By: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
10-Jul-13 - 08:10 PM
Thread Name: What's happened to Myspace?
Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
Hi Lizzie: I must have put in thousands of hours into MySpace, working on a daily basis since 2007. Yes, it is frustrating, having put that much effort.

But in some weird way, I feel this is part of the Internet "correcting itself" so to speak. It is unbelievable how one group of people can affect the work of millions of Artists...and not in some way, be held accountable. If they had done this to a museum, they would be in jail with stiff fines attached. In Cyberspace, they get a yawn...

What MySpace could have been is immeasurable. Home to Artists. Database for Music Supervisors to get music into film, video games, websites, etc. A Radio Station. A MASSIVE store offering low cost streaming, while PAYING FOR the music of the musicians whose work they feature.

This will go down in history as THE textbook on how to totally screw up a venture. I think there were, guessing here, about 350,000,000+/- users at one point, until they stopped posting how large YOUR (LOL) network was, remember THAT?

Oh well, as Tupac once was supposed to have said, "when life gives you tragedies, don't even bother to pick up the pieces, just move on."

But the wild one within me sure would like to have Justin Timberlake and his "team" walk through the gauntlet of those 350,000,000 users...BR