Los Angeles - News Corp.'s MySpace on Friday announced the launch of a new feature for copyright holders that will help prevent users from re-posting content that has already been removed at the copyright holder's request.

"Take Down Stay Down" will see MySpace creating a digital fingerprint of all content that rights holders request be removed from the site, which will be integrated into MySpace's Audible Magic copyright filtering technology.

The filter will recognize the fingerprint if a subsequent user attempts to upload the same file, and block it.

"We have created this new feature to solve a problem that has long frustrated copyright holders and presented technical challenges to service providers -- how to prevent copyrighted content from being re-posted by the same or a different user after it has been taken down by the copyright owner," said Michael Angus, EVP and general counsel for Fox Interactive Media.

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