--- myspace.inc.org	2009-05-11 13:51:54.000000000 +0530
+++ myspace.inc	2009-05-11 15:32:24.000000000 +0530
@@ -33,38 +33,7 @@ function emvideo_myspace_request($code, 
   return module_invoke('emfield', 'request_xml', 'myspace', "http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=$code", $args, $cacheable);
 }
 
-/**
- *  this scrapes the thumbnail from the video page and caches it
- */
-function _emvideo_myspace_scrape_thumbnail($video, $cached = TRUE) {
-  if (!$cached || !$cache = cache_get('myspace:thumbnail:'. $video, 'cache')) {
-    $vidid = drupal_substr($video, 0, 10);
-
-    if ($str = file_get_contents("http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=$vidid")) {
-      // grab videos channel-id first
-      $channel_id = preg_replace('/.*tvchanid=([0-9]+);.*/si', '\1', $str);
-
-      if (is_numeric($channel_id)) {
-        // now from channel-page grab videos thumbnail
-        $str2 = file_get_contents("http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.viewVideos&channelid=$channel_id");
-
-        if ($str2) {
-          $picturelink = preg_replace('@.*href="[^"]+'. $vidid .'"[^>]+><img[^>]+src="([^"]+)".*@si', '\1',  $str2);
-
-          if ($picturelink) {
-            $thumbnail = $picturelink;
-            cache_set('myspace:thumbnail:'. $video, $thumbnail, 'cache', time() + 3600);
-          }
-        }
-      }
-    }
-  }
-  else {
-    $thumbnail = $cache->data;
-  }
 
-  return $thumbnail;
-}
 
 /**
  *  Implements emvideo_PROVIDER_extract().
@@ -108,7 +77,10 @@ function theme_emvideo_myspace_flash($em
 }
 
 function emvideo_myspace_thumbnail($field, $item, $formatter, $node, $width, $height) {
-  return _emvideo_myspace_scrape_thumbnail($item['value']);
+  $xml_data_url = 'http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/rss.ashx?type=video&videoID=' . $item['value'];
+  $video_data = emfield_request_xml('myspace', $xml_data_url, array(), TRUE, TRUE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE);
+  $thumbnail = $video_data['ITEM']['MEDIA:THUMBNAIL'][1]['URL'];
+  return $thumbnail;
 }
 
 function emvideo_myspace_video($embed, $width, $height, $field, $item, &$node) {