8.     Content/Activity Prohibited. The following are examples of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited to post on or through the MySpace Services.  MySpace reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in MySpace's sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending Content from the MySpace Services and terminating the Membership of such violators.  Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to, Content that, in the sole discretion of MySpace:

8.1         is patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;

8.2         harasses or advocates harassment of another person;

8.3         exploits people in a sexual or violent manner;

8.4         contains nudity, excessive violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult website;

8.5         solicits personal information from anyone under 18;

8.6         publicly posts information that poses or creates a privacy or security risk to any person;

8.7         constitutes or promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;

8.8         constitutes or promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;

8.9         involves the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, "spimming," or "spamming";

8.10     contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);

8.11     furthers or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or provides instructional information about illegal activities including, but not limited to making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;

8.12     solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other Users;

8.13     involves commercial activities and/or sales without prior written consent from MySpace such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes;

8.14     includes a photograph or video of another person that you have posted without that person's consent;

8.15     for band, comedy, filmmaker and other profiles, uses sexually suggestive imagery or any other unfair, misleading or deceptive Content intended to draw traffic to the profile; or

8.16     violates the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademark rights, contract rights or any other rights of any person.

The following are examples of the kind of activity that is illegal or prohibited on the MySpace Website and through your use of the MySpace Services.  MySpace reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in MySpace's sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, reporting you to law enforcement authorities.  Prohibited activity includes, but is not limited to:

8.17     criminal or tortious activity, including child pornography, fraud, trafficking in obscene material, drug dealing, gambling, harassment, stalking, spamming, spimming, sending of viruses or other harmful files, copyright infringement, patent infringement, or theft of trade secrets;

8.18     advertising to, or solicitation of, any Member to buy or sell any products or services through the unauthorized or impermissible use of the MySpace Services.  You may not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other Members.  In order to protect our Members from such advertising or solicitation, MySpace 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 deems appropriate in its sole discretion.  If you breach this Agreement and send unsolicited bulk email, instant messages or other unauthorized commercial communications of any kind through the MySpace Services, you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm to MySpace, 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 $50 for each such unsolicited email or other unauthorized commercial communication you send through the MySpace Services;

8.19     circumventing or modifying, attempting to circumvent or modify, or encouraging or assisting any other person in circumventing or modifying any security technology or software that is part of the MySpace Services;

8.20    activity that involves the use of viruses, bots, worms, or any other computer code, files or programs that interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware, or otherwise permit the unauthorized use of or access to a computer or a computer network;

8.21     covering or obscuring the banner advertisements on your personal profile page, or any MySpace page via HTML/CSS or any other means;

8.22     any automated use of the system, such as, but not limited to, using

scripts to add friends or send comments or messages;

8.23     interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the MySpace Services or the networks or services connected to the MySpace Services;

8.24     impersonating or attempting to impersonate another Member, person or entity;

8.25     for band, comedy, filmmaker and other profiles containing a MySpace player, copying the code for your MySpace Player and embedding it (or directing others to embed it) anywhere other than your band profile on MySpace ;

8.26     using the account, username, or password of another Member at any time or disclosing your password to any third party or permitting any third party to access your account;

8.27     selling or otherwise transferring your profile;

8.28     using any information obtained from the MySpace Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person or entity, or attempting to do the same ;

8.29     displaying an unauthorized commercial advertisement on your profile, or accepting payment or anything of value from a third person in exchange for your performing any commercial activity through the unauthorized or impermissible use of 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; or

8.30     using the MySpace Services in a manner inconsistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.