MySpace has generated more evil than anyone could ever imagine. It has created a society of people addicted to getting more friends and leaving pointless bulletins. It allows you to share pictures and music with your friends and the world, but what most don’t know is when you post something on MySpace, your giving away more than just the picture…

Check out the MySpace Terms (you know, the big long document that you’re supposed to read and agree to). Section 6, Part 1 states:

Proprietary Rights in Content on MySpace.com.
By displaying or publishing (”posting”) any Content, messages, text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, profiles, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, “Content”) on or through the Services, you hereby grant to MySpace.com, a non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense through unlimited levels of sublicensees) to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display, store, reproduce, transmit, and distribute such Content on and through the Services. This license will terminate at the time you remove such Content from the Services. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a back-up or residual copy of the Content posted by you may remain on the MySpace.com servers after you have removed the Content from the Services, and MySpace.com retains the rights to those copies. You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on or through the Services or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in this section, and (ii) the posting of your Content on or through the Services does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights of any person. You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owing any person by reason of any Content posted by you to or through the Services.

In summary, remember that if you post anything original on MySpace (a song you wrote or sang, a picture you drew), MySpace has the right to alter it, edit it, sell it, etc. WITHOUT giving you credit, giving you royalties, giving you anything. Period.

So there you go. Solid proof that MySpace is evil. All we had to do was take a gander in the Terms of Usage.

~Jaker

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