Microsoft Corp. has halted new account activations for its Soapbox video-sharing service after inking a deal to distribute content from NBC Universal Inc. and News Corp.'s forthcoming video-sharing venture.
The world's largest software maker temporarily stopped letting new users join Soapbox while it puts a system in place to help keep copyrighted content from being uploaded without authorization.
Visitors to the Soapbox site on Friday were greeted by a message on its front page that said: "If you don't have a Soapbox account, we'll be opening the doors again very soon with some cool new stuff to try. Thanks for your patience as we continue to build the best place to 'make your statement' on the web."
The message said users of the video-sharing service who already have an account are now required to "temporarily … log in using your Windows Live ID before you can watch or upload videos."
"We have temporarily closed Soapbox on MSN Video to new users to begin implementing copyright filtering solutions," Adam Sohn, director of global sales and marketing, said in a written statement e-mailed to CBC News Online Friday by the software giant's PR company.
"We want to automate finding copyrighted content for content owners as much as possible through good tools, as well as run filtering in the background. Following this period, we will open Soapbox back up in public beta to more broadly test the filters."
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