Last.fm and MySpace Blocked in Turkey?

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Pete Cashmore
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Last.fm and MySpace Blocked in Turkey?
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Turkish blog WebRazzi reports on its English site:

Access to MySpace and Last.fm is banned by [a] Turkish court...this ban may be a consequence of a case filed by Turkish Union of Music Producers (MÜYAP) in order to protect music rights.

Just to remind, YouTube is banned in Turkey for over a year and the case hasn’t been able to be resolved between both parties since then. We believe the “web site bans” have a big negative effect on Turkish economy while Turkey has 7th largest and most engaged online audience in Europe with its 27 million Internet users. As comScore stated in the report published in May 2009, internet users in Turkey spend more time online and consume more pages than users in other European countries.

Are you based in Turkey and unable to access these sites? Let us know in the comments.

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