News Corp.'s MySpace announced it has licensed technology from Gracenote to filter out unauthorized copyrighted music posted on MySpace member pages.

The announcement comes a day after YouTube announced it is purging copyrighted material from Comedy Central on its site.

MySpace announced that users repeatedly attempting to upload copyrighted music will have their accounts deleted, according to a Reuters article.

"MySpace is staunchly committed to protecting artists' rights, whether those artists are on major labels or are independent acts," says MySpace CEO and co-founder Chris DeWolfe. "This is another important step we're taking to ensure artists control the content they create."

The popular social networking site has more than 100 million profile pages, which include 3 million band sites.

Last week Nielsen//NetRatings reported that traffic to MySpace fell during September.