MySpace launches 'Take Down Stay Down'; Facebook does classifieds; MySpace: Microsoft's biggest competitor?

The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week…MySpace launches Take Down Stay Down. MySpace video has implemented new technology its calling Take Down Stay Down which uses filtering to stop users re-posting copyrighted material that has already received a take-down notice. This seems to address one of the biggest complaints by content companies, in which users upload new copies of infringing material, quicker than their legal teams can issue take-downs. The move also puts more pressure on YouTube, which has yet to address this problem.Facebook does classifieds. Facebook is to launch its own classified ads service, later today. In some ways the move turns Facebook into a ...