It looks like MySoace has started to block third party gadgets once again. Recently they placed a restriction on installed music gadgets from the popular ‘Project Playlist’. Project Playlist was an application that was growing at quite a rapid pace. MySpace has removed applications before like ‘iMeem’ and ‘Photobucket’ in 2006 and 2007. However, its removal of the Project Playlist application was carried out due to different reasons. The removal of Project Playlist was because of a lawsuit notice from big well known music companies.

Certain sources were informed by MySpace users that their Playlist gadgets seemed to be disappearing from their profile pages on the MySpace website. When the sources asked MySpace about this, MySpace stated that they had banned it due to being given lawsuit notices by ‘major music companies.’

The following is a part of a statement made by MySpace with regards to the lawsuit notice:

“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. Any third party widgets (including any music widgets) are welcome on MySpace so long as they do not include infringing content—we encourage our users to utilize the many legitimate applications found on MySpace and across the Web.”