The interesting bit here is that that tactic did come back to haunt myspace, but...

jacquesm on Aug 9, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Did you ever do anything unethical to get ...

The interesting bit here is that that tactic did come back to haunt myspace, but in a different way than you'd expect. The guys that built youtube used the same tactic but by bitting myspace users to come and use youtube.