Hi. My name's Butta. I'm just wondering if a post of mine was deleted....and, if it was, why?? I posted about a bootleg of his recent Champaign, Illinois concert being available, and it's no longer in the TRADE forum.

Butta said:

if you read the rules in the trade forum you'll see that you can't solicit bootlegs. the purple police are always watching.

Before I first became a member, I looked for that in the rules. I didn't see any mention of bootleg recordings. Not to mention, one of the forum categories is "Marketplace: Sale/Trade (ads for goodies)"!!!! I guess most people make their ads more discreet.

Thanks for the info, JasmineFire.

Butta said:

excerpted from: http://www.prince.org/msg/rules.html

[b]You're responsible for what you write.[b]
"Specifically, don't solicit to violate copyright law (via trading mp3s/CD-Rs/bootlegs, or whatever), "


also, from http://www.prince.org/msg/
The Marketplace: For Sale/Trade
Ads for goodies here. Read the prince.org site FAQ before posting.

and from said FAQ: http://www.prince.org/faq...g_Site_FAQ
You may use the Marketplace forum to post items for sale or trade (or that are "wanted"). However, to protect the rights of copyright & trademark holders, (and so that prince.org is not liable) the following rules will be vigorously enforced:

- No "bootleg" material, including but not limited to: audio or video recordings of concerts, unofficial recordings of unreleased material, etc. are to be posted.
- No CD-Rs / tape copies / other reproductions of official items are to be offered.
- UPDATE No member-only NPGMC merchandise or content is to be made available.
- No links with "affiliate IDs" or "kickbacks" are allowed.

So what CAN you post? Examples:
- Official items (music/collectibles/etc.) for sale
- Links to eBay auctions (as long as the auction items aren't of the type disallowed above, and they are DIRECT links to the items, with a description of EACH item.) No links to your "all items for sale by seller X" page, sorry.
- Posts of items WANTED, for example "Wanted: Jill Jones CD", etc.
- UPDATE Videotapes of publicly broadcast, but not available for sale performances can be traded, for example when Prince has appeared on TV shows. Note trades only. These items should not be offered for sale.
- Concert tickets for sale AT COST (plus "reasonable" shipping if applicable). NO SCALPING. ["At cost" means face value plus any service charges from the official ticketing agent.]
- Services, such as impersonators or bands-for-hire.








but then, i can sort of see your point. they used to have a notice at the top of that forum explicitly stating it. it is at the top of the Prince forum, but i guess they didn't add it to the Marketplace forum when they brought it back.

Thank you very much, GrayKing. I had never read/seen that information on this website before now!



In the forum section, it says "Read the rules before posting".....and I read the rules and the rules didn't mention bootlegs. Cool. Now I know!

B u t t a.

Butta said:

glad i could be of some help.