Sony Moviemakers Banned From MySpace
A tipster tells us that when Sony employees in L.A. try to log onto MySpace, “it directs you to google.com.” Bizarrely, Sony’s IT staff is saying it’s MySpace’s fault.
Our tipster speculates: “Revenge for all the crap services that MySpace provided to Sony as a studio? Maybe.” There’d be a ha-ha joke about how not being able to log onto MySpace’s unusable site is a kindness, except that Hollywood studios, which set up pages for their movies to promote them, actually need to access the site. Here’s the memo about the outage:
From: Brian Franke
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 1:32 PM
To: Interactive
Subject: MySpace.com Update Folks,Just wanted to let you know that we are looking into the MySpace.com redirect to Google.com issue.
It appears to be on the MySpace end (unexpectedly), and has been escalated to their network team.
No ETA yet on a resolution.
Please contact me if you have time-sensitive MySpace deliverables, and we can discuss options.
Regards,
Brian
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Brian Franke
Executive Director of Technology
Sony Pictures Imageworks Interactive
(Photo by xurble)
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who is still trying to log onto myspace.com?
oh, people in LA.
cbs just blocks everything with "fuck" or "sex" in the address. however, I can access any number of porn/nasty sites (cumstainedglasses or disgustingmakeout.tumblre.com), but NOT lookatthisfuckinghipster.
"Please contact me if you have time-sensitive MySpace deliverables, and we can discuss options."
Option 1 - Drive to a Starbucks, order a large cappuccino, open laptop, then check myspace.
Option 2 - Steal iPhone from 12 year old girl, then use to check myspace.
Option 3 - Drive to library, get library card, then use library computer to check myspace.
Option 4 - Drive home, use home computer to look at porn, then check myspace.
Does this help??
Sony Music blocked us from Perez Hilton for about 6 hours until everyone made such a stink that they reversed it by the end of the day.
musicandorchids
I worked someplace once that blocked me from Gawker and caused Facebook to move at a snail's pace.
Sony employee, upon discovering this redirect which might actually make them productive:
"The Horror... The Horror..."
telos707
Hal-san's a revanchist M.F.
SteveManiac
Never before in the history of mankind has it been easier to reach out to people all over the world. Online communitieslike MySpace, make meeting new friends with similar interests incredibly easy. MySpace is a great place to share tips, ideas and stories about the things you find most interesting. If you have a question about your hobby, you can easily find the answer through your network of members with similar interests.
UQ
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Usman Qayyum
As a Former MySpace employer I can say with all authority: happens quite often, that party has been dead for a while.
SuvarnaCepheus