Prince picks fight with the Internet

"Someone has to start somewhere and we know this will make a serious impact"

Aww, the innocence of noob.

I know i'm repeating myself, but, if the artists want more money they should just sell their music for cheap on their own websites... thx to broadband (almost everywhere), payment systems like paypal it shouldnt be too hard to realize...
that way we could buy music for less, the artists would stil end up with more money, the only ones suffering would be the resellers like unsiveral, bmg and such, but hey... who needs them anyway? (+the riaa..lol.. but who doesnt want them to suffer?)

Heh... lets clean up the internet... right... there wouldn't be anything left except IM.. o wait we all do that on our phones now.. the infrastructure will instead be clammed by the TV companies to offer more tiered TV then we have now!! go go $120USD TV bills..

Originally Posted by naokaji
I know i'm repeating myself, but, if the artists want more money they should just sell their music for cheap on their own websites... thx to broadband (almost everywhere), payment systems like paypal it shouldnt be too hard to realize...
that way we could buy music for less, the artists would stil end up with more money, the only ones suffering would be the resellers like unsiveral, bmg and such, but hey... who needs them anyway? (+the riaa..lol.. but who doesnt want them to suffer?)

But you've got two problems with that
a)It doesn't affect the charts. BIG issue.
b)CDs are still the most popular medium for music.

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WHat Prince fails to realize is that the reason he doesnt make any money anymore has nothing to do with piracy. It just becasue hes a washed out "Has Been" that hasnt managed to make one decent song in 20 years :) I think that the only reason for anybody even remembering the guy is because of all his old stuff thats floating around on the evil internet. A thank you is maybe more in order than a lawsuit. Ok so maybe im not completely serious with my comment but i couldnt help myself :)

Or it could've been his new album given away free the other week with a Sunday rag.

When I saw the headline i was thinking "What's Charles said now...."

"You know, I don't think I've got enough money. Which public institution should I sue? Ahh, the Internet, no-ones done that one for a while"

Whoever came up with the picture caption deserves a biscuit, and a slap. It's awfully good. :)

Oh look, a new download site....and another.... and there goes another. Trying to stop piracy and closing down pirate sites is like trying to fill a cup with no bottom. More sites pop up every second, and as you close down one pirate, antohter 10 replace them.

You have to just arrest the entire world for piracy. I bet £1 Million that Prince has done something ilegal in his life if it is only speeding, its still ilegal.

Get over it as its never going to stop. If record labels and producers drop their prices it would help more.

As a casual downloader, I think you have more chance winning the lottery than being done for piracy.

the artist formally known as Prince

1) I think you mean formerly. Maybe.
2) And surely it should be "the artist formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known As Prince"... since his stage name is Prince again. ;)

Originally Posted by quack

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the artist formally known as Prince

1) I think you mean formerly. Maybe.
2) And surely it should be "the artist formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known As Prince"... since his stage name is Prince again. ;)

Yes, I omitted thinking it was a typo when Phil was playing on words - whoops.

Originally Posted by revlob
Whoever came up with the picture caption deserves a biscuit, and a slap. It's awfully good. :)

I'll take the biscuit, but not the slap.

This whole situation just reminds me of Lars Ulrich leading the fight against Napster many moons ago. Thanks to Lars we now have better P2P software then ever before. GG dude.

Trying this sort of thing is just like trying to dig a hole on a sandy beach, the further you dig the more it fills in. Many have said it before , but this sort of thing never works. They need to take a look at why people pirate stuff and take a look at what THEY are doing wrong, not the pirates.

Blouses, Win.

Aggies

"...control how their image is portrayed."

Why?

Nobody else gets to control how their image is portrayed.

Phil

Prince sucks. That Super Bowl halftime show was a freaking joke....enough said....

I had to chuckle when I read that he is using WEB SHERIFF to help him in his quest! That's it, pick the most useless company/person you can to help you take down the interweb thingy and that evil Pirate Bay......

See his last attempt listed under White Stripes / WEB SHERIFF here - http://thepiratebay.org/legal

Wait, wasn't it Prince who gave away two million copies away of his latest album with some tabloid or something a couple months ago?

*headache*

I think YouTube is worse than Pirate Bay. YouTube has a copy of the music video and distributes it for free. On YouTube music search engines like www.tubejuke.com you can get a feel for the massive amount of music videos that is on there...

the thing about people like this is they are just pissy and want to blame everyone but their own lack of talent. not to say that he did a killer job for the Batman movie. but on to the point, the 'evil internet' has done nothing but promote record sales. in the three years after napster CD sales went up something like 6-10% because it was easier to get a hold of music you never would have heard before. in every case i know of for people DLing, they either don't have the money to spent 10-$25 on a CD or e-album or they don't really like the CD and just lie a couple songs cause they are catchy. this day and age with technology at everyones fingertips it shouldn't cost any more then $5 for a CD and like 10 cents an MP3. MP3s are non-degrading, infinitely reproducible, 0% Production cost, essentially imaginary item with no physical existence. this means other than running the storage server for the original, its a zero overhead item, they sell them for near 100% profit. Yet still charge as much or more then what it would cost to buy a physical CD if you were to get it as an album. we have been paying people more then they are worth for over 70 years for music that is nothing more then a distraction, cause the more we keep people focusing on making music instead of making a difference the more money people like record executives can make.

Drexial you have to factor in the bandwidth cost......

edit: forgot to say that prince is fighting an uphill fight against a death star at firing range while using a straw and some paper as ammo..... and only one shot..... and no jedi powers.

he has 1 in 10000000000000000 chances of cleaning up the internet.

Why does this always happen when artists start sucking?

Fairly simple, really. They see their declining record sales, and most of them have fairly powerful psychological blocks on admitting that they just aren't as original or good as they used to be. They look for a scapegoat (or turn to a destructive drug habit), and they notice internet piracy. This plays to their ego ("I'm so good that lots of people are downloading my music") and their sense of greed ("I'm loosing money because people are illegally downloading my music"), and also provides a very nice escape from the crushing reality that they really aren't as good as they were.

I'm sure, of course, that the great Nexxo will be along in a few posts to explain the whole matter quite a bit more thoroughly and accurately.

(I hope, anyway. There's nothing like reading a good Nexxoization)

*Downloads Purple rain out of spite*

won't listen to it tho so does that count?

Trying to stop pirates on the internet is like boarding a pirate ship and telling them they can't pillage.

They will pillage if they want to pillage damnit!

Would of thought Prince would of been sick of legal fights by now

I guess he dosn't know much of the origins and early days of the web if he thinks the piracy thing is bad today... I rember people just used to share vast amounts of stuff on aynomous ftp's that allowed uploads! and webpages with huge lists of wares for direct download.

I'd have a lot more respect for the poor, horribly-wronged, brought-to-the-brink-of-poverty artists if they didn't all apear to be rich money grabbing *******s with drug problems. Not that I'm suggesting Prince has a drug problem, although his pharmacist has clearly given him the wrong meds if he thinks he can clean up the internet.

I'm sure they all think we're rolling about in beds of cash, sticking two fingers up at them through our massive internet tubes as we suck up their imaginary profits. Fact is, people, most of us have less money now in real terms trying to spread it a lot further - and paying £15 for an album with only a couple of songs you really like, well - it sorta sucks. So excuse us if we feel the need to try before we buy. End rant... for the time being.

First of all, Welcome to Bit-tech your second family ;)

I don't mind to see music videos on Internet! Better than see them on TV on MTV or something! Why the hell the ISP will cost me when I see the Video? This is kinda Weired. I think the DSL Line limited to some speed and Unlimited on bandwidth! mean if you download 1T in 1 month same as you download 1MB in 1 month too! It's do what every you want on this speed.... Also if you think on it, It's good thing to artist to make there videos on youtube to watch for free. If you like it Go buy it. It's kinda same the games. When the Company show the demo and tell you try it and if you like the game go buy, Same what happen with Bioshock ;)

Any ways I love the site that you post, It's kinda make it easy to watch songs on youtube ;) Cleaner and faster

Thanks very much, Take care.

So he's going to be suing Al Gore (the "inventor" of the internet)?

people still listen to Prince???