More indicators that Myspace is going strong

According to this Apple retail store blog, the stores are now banning MySpace pages because of heavy use. I see the same behavior in my local library -- nobody can get on the computers because of all the MySpace users.

The flagship stores and others have had a chronic problem with visitors hogging the display computers and using them for hours on personal business, rather than demo’ing the computer or software. As I’ve chronicled here before, people send and receive e-mail, have their appointment and check books open on the counters, and are logged into every conceivable Web site. Now Apple has taken notice of the activity, but not from a crowd point of view. Rather, the stores’ Internet connections are apparently taking a hit from all the bandwidth activity. According to visitors, Apple is now blocking the MySpace.com Web site to cut down on net activity. Visitor at certain stores who surf the MySpace.com URL are re-directed to Apple’s own Web site.