Good idea!! MySpace cracks down on unauthorized music uploads.WOW!

i want tell every myspacer about this:
MySpace.com has announced it will use so-called "audio fingerprinting" technology to identify unauthorized uploads and is threatening to permanently ban members who put copyrighted music files on the site.The popular social networking site, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., said on Monday that it will filter audio files uploaded by members through a music database by Gracenote Inc. of Emeryville, Calif.Gracenote's database contains about 55 million music tracks and eight million "audio waveform fingerprints," the company says. Gracenote was formerly known as the CD Data Base or CDDB.com.Myspace members can upload music, video and other media files to personal web pages hosted by the social networking site. The files can then be streamed over the internet through a media player built into the page."MySpace is staunchly committed to protecting artists' rights, whether those artists are on major labels or are independent acts," said Chris DeWolfe, MySpace chief executive and co-founder.The recording industry has targeted popular social networking sites such as MySpace and online video sharing sites like YouTube for allegedly allowing their members to upload copyrighted music.In some cases, recording labels have sued to prevent music from being used as a soundtrack for user-made videos posted online.YouTube, Inc. recently purged thousands of files over complaints of copyright infringement, Earlier this year, the company implemented a royalty tracking system to give copyright owners greater control over the content uploaded to the site.Google Inc. bought YouTube for $1.65 billion US earlier this month.