Universal Music Group, the largest of the big three major labels, is forcing all of its bands to take down the full versions of songs on their myspace profiles and replace them with 90 second samplers.  From Wired:

Word on the grapevine is that this policy was enacted about six months ago, but that in many cases, artists were only recently notified.  Universal has limited the music by artists on all of its labels to posting only 90 second samples on MySpace and other third-party sites, unless they have a contract with Universal that allows them to stream the full song on-demand.  (Labels can also choose to add an audio tag to the beginning and end of the audio files rather than limiting songs to 90 seconds, but most are going with the 90-second sample option.) The policy applies to any site where music can be embedded, except for Universal’s own official sites, which still offer free on-demand streaming of certain complete songs.

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Dumb. If you’re one of the lopdicks at UMG who thought this up, let’s talk in about 6 months and see how thing work out. That is, if you’re still around…

Hey there, remember when To Catch A Predator went to Riverside, CA and had a woman act like a 13-year-old boy to lure in creepy old men so Chris Hanson could pwn them?

Her name is Del Harvey, and she’s pretty much my ideal woman.

I also found her MySpace. Afterwards I neglected to take any further action because I would imagine she has a strong aversion to people who solicit other people on the Internet with romantic interests. Plus, I’m really shy, even on the Internet.

Other than Zacky Vengeance being able to rip off a good Iron Maiden riff here and there, Avenged Sevenfold sucks balls. But they sell a lot of albums and get taken along on big ass tours so somebody’s gotta be buying this crap. Maybe it’s you. If it is, and you care, go check out the second installment of their in-studio “teaser,” which has been posted on my favorite site YouTube.

You can also listen to a clip of their new song on their MySpace page. I won’t, but you sure could.

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Just in case you’ve always wanted to check out dead people’s Myspace pages: Mydeathspace.com.

I sit on MySpace for a big chunk o’ my day. I see EVERYTHING, people. Scandals galore. Sifting through comments is my favorite way to see who’s salting who, so if you’re going to post one, assume it will be read by me and thus everyone. But probably the most annoying thing is random messages. People from all over this damn country message me things like:

“hi brittany. how’s everything in chico going for you? hopefully perfect!

i just wanted to say hello and see whats going on. i was just checking out your page and you seem like a badass! well your a very pretty girl and seem like you’d make a kick ass friend. i hope to hear back from ya soon!

derrick”

Whatever, dude. With 29,000 registered sex offenders on MySpace, this guy looks like maybe he’s one of them. Yup, ya heard me. 29,000 sex offenders - that’s 4 times the amount in May. So becareful, kids. Do your research - data mine.

UPDATE:

I was chatting with a coworker when she mentioned she got the same message from “Derrick”. This isn’t the first time this has happened so I wasn’t too shocked. What did surprise me though is that Derrick deleted his MySpace account as soon as he got a message letting him know that some bitch blogged about him on synthesismagazine.net. They don’t call me the Queen of MySpace for no reason.