In its decision, the appellate court over ruled the decision of the federal court citing that the social networking site is protected from any sort of liability under the federal law.

The CA also stressed that the victims, has misrepresented their birthdates making them technically unallowable to surf other members’ pages.

The four girls, aged 13 to 15 years old, have posted misrepresented information in their webpages. Each later encountered four other men online before deciding to meet personally.

Two of the suspects were already sentenced to life in prison while the other two are still awaiting verdict.

The court also questioned the “late” filing of charges against the MySpace, saying that the trials against the suspect were already ongoing before a case was logged against the online company.

Under the MySpace rules, legal-aged members are prohibited from browsing or searching any members under 16. MySpace members should be at least 14 to log into the website.

However, the court said that underage users can search into other profiles by misrepresenting their birthdates making them older.

In their argument at the Home County court of Los Angeles, the parents said that these incidents could have been prevented if only MySpace use age-verification software or other shields for underage members from sexual predators.

However, the CA, citing the 1996 federal Communications Decency Act, said that mere posting from other members does not constitute to any liability by the company.

The 3-0 ruling has vindicated MySpace against all of the accusations.

Marc Tabolsky, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, said that they will take the case to the Supreme Court.

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