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you opted IN to getting bulletins when you accepted the friend request!
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That is very true... but it not only is the bulletin that they're going nuts over, its the type of content on the profile.
Well in Richters case - he's just screwed.... Phishing, using other peoples passwords is like a given law suit. Would be like stealing peoples email passwords and then emailing the whole world. (Yep pretty sure the FBI gonna come knocking, or some gimp in a suit gonna give me a yellow slip, [supena] or a fat stack of papers [law suit].
Reviewing the Terms of Service from
Terms & Conditions - MySpace.com
Last Modified : October 25, 2006
(Prohibited Activities)
Section 8-9
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involves the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, "spimming," or "spamming";
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Section 8-13
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involves commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes;
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The section past 8 but re referened as 8-2
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advertising to, or solicitation of, any Member to buy or sell any products or services through the MySpace Services. You may not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other Members. It is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the MySpace Services in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any Member without their prior explicit consent. In order to protect our Members from such advertising or solicitation, MySpace.com reserves the right to restrict the number of emails which a Member may send to other Members in any 24-hour period to a number which MySpace.com deems appropriate in its sole discretion. If you breach this Agreement and send unsolicited bulk email, instant messages or other unsolicited communications of any kind through the MySpace Services, you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm to MySpace.com, but that the amount of such harm would be extremely difficult to ascertain. As a reasonable estimation of such harm, you agree to pay MySpace.com $50 for each such unsolicited email or other unsolicited communication you send through the MySpace Services;
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Section 8-4
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any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to add friends or send comments or messages;
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This ones about impossible to prove without a copy of the script.
Section 8-11
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displaying an advertisement on your profile, or accepting payment or anything of value from a third person in exchange for your performing any commercial activity on or through the MySpace Services on behalf of that person, such as placing commercial content on your profile, posting blogs or bulletins with a commercial purpose, selecting a profile with a commercial purpose as one of your "Top 8" friends, or sending private messages with a commercial purpose;
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So now talking about
how-to legally spam myspace.
As I reread that several times, I do notice there is nothing said about having multiple accounts, so lets assume thats ok to do.
Step 1 ) Multiple Accounts :
APPROVED
Now it says that creating any kind of commerical bulletin is not ok.
So lets create people profiles, that have no affilate links, banners, etc nothing that could be looked upon as a link trying to sell a service or product.
Now lets create a flash game landing page... (This is a flash game) with banner adds at top, or adsense on the side etc... However the main thing on the screen is the game.
Now on the profile you could link to that game landing page, and talk about how far you got on the game, and how cool it is... don't mention its free, don't mention anything other then it being cool.
When adding friends, add people based on targeted niche - for instance, if your thinking arcade traffic - target gaming groups. halo / web games / game developer etc
Step 2) Inbound links from Myspace : GRANTED
Now by reading thru that... That is not the run of the mill blatent TOS Violation... It is possible that your skitzo and like to make people think your many different people to show your "alternate personalities".. You just have TONS of personalities you wanted to profile online. Your not selling anything, or any service you just like some cool video or game you found online.
Granted this won't convert as well as just blatently linking to a site w/product and checkout but I don't think this is in violation with the current ToS.
Anyhow..... Just food for thought.
-rob