Myspace Bans Project Playlist

Myspace, under ongoing pressure from the Majors, has yanked all Project Playlist widgets from its site.

MySpace has received notices of infringement about Project Playlist at different times from several of the major music companies currently suing Project Playlist. Per our policy of taking very seriously the requests of rights holders to block access to third party sites that are believed to be infringing, we have evaluated the requests of the major music companies and determined that it is in our best interest not to allow Project Playlist widgets on MySpace, and effective immediately, we will no longer be allowing these widgets within the MySpace platform.

The widgets are, for the moment, still live on Facebook, but I doubt that will last. Hypebot says that a Project Playlist merger with imeem may be in the cards, but with imeem openly, actively looking for a buyer, it doesn’t seem like a merger of those two would accomplish very much (noticed how well that Sirius/XM merger has been working out?).

- Ryan Catbird