As part of Doug Morris’ effort to focus on his anti-iTunes music subscription service, Universal Music Group has suddenly decided that full-length MySpace audios are evil. Ironically, the news came from none other than MySpace-bred, Universal-signed Colbie Caillat:

Due to circumstances beyond my control I have to swap the songs out on my page for 90 second versions instead of full length versions. In fact some of the songs have already been swapped as I write this.

Every artist signed to a Universal label has to comply immediately.

Smh. My guess is that Newscorp will throw some money at Universal or strike a deal of some sort with them, and this whole thing will be history.

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