I look forward to Prince cutting deals which will result in spectacular exclusives, special events, huge profile/press and the like on these services and enable him to resume making lots of amazing vids (a la Gold period), smoking spectacular one-off events and offering concert tickets at £31.21 (or did y'all forget?)

Hurt me

The funkier I be
The funkier I get, oh shit
Lickety split on the lyric
A new jack in the pulpit
Watch it deacon, your track is leakin'
What is this u're seekin'?
The syncopated rhymes are at their peak
When you jumped on my D.I.C.K.
That's the one thing that I don't play
The jock strap was 2 big 4 u anyway
U're just a simpleton
I'll bust u like a pimple, son
My star is 2 bright
Boy, I'll sink u like the ship Poseidon Adventure
U're bumpin' dentures 2 be cocksure
There must be more coming from
your mouth than manure
So with a flow and a spray, I say hey
U must become a prince before u're king anyway

Prince is brilliant. He has been at the cutting edge of online music distribution and websites, so it only makes sense that he would step up and try to get a handle on the piracy that has gone wild online. Someone has to take the first step and Prince is making a bold move. He has worked hard and deserves to have some sense of where all his work is being reproduced.

We are stepping into new territory with the online piracy, and eventually there will be parameters and guidelines to protect artists. For now Prince will have to make the first move. A very smart move. He wants control of his music and videos. Very smart.

The music industry has to catch up to the internet eventually. Prince will set the standard for others to follow.

Prince threatening Photoshop?

Omigod, HQ has posted that Prince is demanding that Photoshop close the accounts of all people that have his pictures stored in their database, THIS IS NOT A JOKE check with housequake. I have over 1000 pictures of him stored over there and what about my other pics? check your accounts, check with HG I hope this is a bad dream!
[Edited 9/14/07 4:53am

Prince is brilliant. He has been at the cutting edge of online music distribution and websites, so it only makes sense that he would step up and try to get a handle on the piracy that has gone wild online. Someone has to take the first step and Prince is making a bold move. He has worked hard and deserves to have some sense of where all his work is being reproduced.

We are stepping into new territory with the online piracy, and eventually there will be parameters and guidelines to protect artists. For now Prince will have to make the first move. A very smart move. He wants control of his music and videos. Very smart.

The music industry has to catch up to the internet eventually. Prince will set the standard for others to follow.

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I look forward to Prince cutting deals which will result in spectacular exclusives, special events, huge profile/press and the like on these services and enable him to resume making lots of amazing vids (a la Gold period), smoking spectacular one-off events and offering concert tickets at £31.21 (or did y'all forget?)

[Edited 9/14/07 1:33am]

feelUup said:

Why Prince is just now trying to get a handle on this when the floodgates were open years ago is beyond me. Dude had people working for him that were stealing from him, yet he wants to get mad at fans for wanting to hear that stuff. He doesn't make sure no cameras or recording equipment is bought into venues so I don't understand why he seems to be shocked. I really don't get this cat. Luckily I don't have to like a person to enjoy their music.

Your line of thought seems to be that because they are succesful, because people have created the largest communities we have ever seen in the history of the world, that somehow automatically makes them an evil corporation. Are you just jealous or do you simply dispise people making money. Your anti corporate rant is tired in any case, and i suspect disingenuous at the same time.

Thanks, Kevin. Is that on YouTube?
Anybody got the url?

LizSK2 said:

Lothan said:

Exactly.
Again, Youtube and Myspace have been around for years.

It's ONLY when these sites get bought by large corporations and become SO popular does Prince smell dollar signs.

ButterscotchPimp said:

You are pretty awesome.

Prince is brilliant. He has been at the cutting edge of online music distribution and websites, so it only makes sense that he would step up and try to get a handle on the piracy that has gone wild online. Someone has to take the first step and Prince is making a bold move. He has worked hard and deserves to have some sense of where all his work is being reproduced.

We are stepping into new territory with the online piracy, and eventually there will be parameters and guidelines to protect artists. For now Prince will have to make the first move. A very smart move. He wants control of his music and videos. Very smart.

The music industry has to catch up to the internet eventually. Prince will set the standard for others to follow.

excessex said:

LOL are you kidding?! This entire thread is about Prince's control issues with online content. He wants clips of him off You Tube, you think he's going to let a story about him that's so revealing end up online?! You'll have to buy the DVD, believe me it's absolutely worth it. Kevin Smith is a huge fan, he even got The Time to appear in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

However, I see from Googling that the entire story is available online, on this very site no less. I don't get why people think P is an asshole upon reading this, it makes me adore him more! He's not of this world, are people expecting that he goes out to the local store for a pint of milk in his heels or something? Most rock stars are ordinary. He's like something from another world and isn't that what we adore about him?

Here's the link, read the whole story, it's fantastic even if you don't get the telling in writing. The way he tells it is with absolute love and fan worship of the man, and how thrilled, and sometimes annoyed, he was by the whole experience.

http://prince.org/msg/7/156607
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ButterscotchPimp said:

You are pretty awesome.

Prince is brilliant. He has been at the cutting edge of online music distribution and websites, so it only makes sense that he would step up and try to get a handle on the piracy that has gone wild online. Someone has to take the first step and Prince is making a bold move. He has worked hard and deserves to have some sense of where all his work is being reproduced.

We are stepping into new territory with the online piracy, and eventually there will be parameters and guidelines to protect artists. For now Prince will have to make the first move. A very smart move. He wants control of his music and videos. Very smart.

The music industry has to catch up to the internet eventually. Prince will set the standard for others to follow.

We should all flood youtube with every Prince video that we have and upload every picture of Prince to photobucket. That should keep the net police quite busy.

what prince and his "yes men" haven't comprehended is that this action just killed any interest in his future work from future generations...


so...what do we die hard fans get in return? more concerts with hits medleys and purple rain encores.

purplesweat said:

Do you think Prince knew he was going to be a Jehovah Wintness back then?

And that naughty performance of Head that is circulating is what he's trying to get pulled.

sosgemini said:

Come on. Like the other person above pointed out, old videos of P on YouTube etc., do not bring a large amount of new fans interested in his new work. If anything it's just the opposite they bring in people who want to hear him play the hits in concert. Thus leaving the die hards who attend concerts still hearing the same "hits medleys and Purple Rain encores".


And on another note (not related to your post SOS) I still think it's funny as hell that people are still bitching because they can't see offical videos that are available at retail shops for free. And boots are illegal (fun, but still illegal) so why cry about it?

billboard.com is now reporting on it.

Prince has asked the NYPD to deliver video surveilance of the area surrounding Bryant Park. Anyone seen photographing him during last year's performance on Good Morning America is to be sued.

Ifsixwuz9 said:

That's the point! Most of the stuff Prince and his yesmen are all up in arms about, is stuff that has been purchased by ME (since I can only speak for myself) numerous times. I paid for the albums. I paid for the cassettes, I paid for the cd's, I paid for the posters, the pictures, t-shirts, concert tickets, souvenirs and I paid for the videos!!

So I'm not bitching about him giving me anything for free! I'm bitching because this whole thing has nothing to do with money or internet piracy! It's about Prince trying to erase his past, period!!

gemini13 said:

I'm seriously starting to love some of you.

freaking hilarious!

"Prince doesn't really want to go around suing people

No offense but if you have the videos and such already that you have paid for why are you pissed he is pulling it? You've got it vids, pics, etc ...why worry about what others can see?



Not trying to erase it, but "sanitize" it as PurpleCharm said. And, as I pointed out in another post I'm sure he didn't think 25+ years ago that some concert he did in Dallas or Atlanta where he grabbed his crotch or dropped his pants would show up on the internet without his permission. It's one thing to have been there at the time to experience it, but well then it's over and then all you have is the memory of the event. It was shocking, it was fun, but that was then and this is now.