Accujack said:

Why is reporting about Prince taking down illegal copies of his works a negative thing?

*WE* think it is stupid in this case.
Strictly speaking about (C) he, mr Prince, does have a case.
E.g. He needs to enforce his rights to be taken seriously.

ppl don't understand by now that to Prince, when it comes to youtube, he doesn't care about the money that can be generated.

JayJai said:

word.

tangerine7 said:

Yet, on the other side, he used the '#1 at the bank' too often.
So whay the difference?
Is youtube pennies?

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The commercial on You TUbe is not going to sell that many more albums. It would be like everything else on You TUbe: free entertainment for people looking to download something for nothing. THat commercial serves its purpose on TV where the demographic is far larger and varied.

Why would he care about this? It is free Publicity and fans want to see it.

Well you know Prince, but damn, it's a commercial isn't it meant for people to see it?

well at leat he's consistent. no video's, so that includes commercials.

if he would allow the commercial to stay some of y'all would be just as
mad at him.

is it silly? sure it is. but hey, at least now we can watch the videos
on his site in "HIGH QUALITY" which, after watching them, i guess is a
sort of prince slang for "ripped from an old fanmade 'mtv prince weekend'
compilation VHS tape".



now wait a minute, i paid 77 dollars for the exclusive right to watch
those:

double

udo said:

It's not, but linking to a source that doesn't call Prince the 'n' word in the article would have been more appropriate.

Accujack said:

It's someone else's speech.
N-words may have a slightly different meaning depending on location/upbringing/use/context/etc.
So I'd not be upset too soon about this now.
We're not in Texas, right?

Sad imo.

I will never understand Prince's decissions when it comes to YouTube, (in this case free advertising), fansites etc.

His desire to CONTROLE everything is sooo annoying, I guess Prince still have a Web Sheriff on his payrole, to controle the internet.... ?

and it seems like he is fighting his own fans... the closing of HOUSEQUAKE.COM is proof of that,

sad, this is just imo...
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Not suprising though. He has everything taken down even if it helps him.
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Lovesymbol2 said:

www.nabeelamin.com

no class at all.....
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MRGee said:

Well it's not like it's not being shown on regular and cable tv during prime time (at least here in the US).

I'm trying to figure out why anyone would specifically log on to Youtube to see a commercial they can see on the tv every 45 minutes or so.

if prince was truly an intelligent person, he would have found a way to utilize youtube for his own financial and commercial gain. rather than sue everyone into oblivion or make his overworked lawyer file more papers, why not require the site to include a link to prince's current website? then everything on the site operates as an advertisement for his site. or, i don't know, think of something else that manipulates the media in his own benefit.

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udo said:

Whether youtube is pennies or alotta $$$ is irrelevant to Prince.
I'm not gonna try to quote wat he said concernin that issue cause I don't want to misquote.
Will Prince drop standards he holds for himself jus to be "#1 at the bank"? This shows that he won't.
When the money's gone u still got your standards u stand on, which are worth more than $$$ any day.
I doubt this would cause much loss to his income anyway.
Prince been makin $$$ wayyyyy b4 youtube came into existence.
Dude will still be on the up and up wit this album.
God be wit some ppl if youtube shuts down They actin like youtube is the only site on the internet where vids can be viewed
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sassybritches said:

I've wondered the same thing.

JayJai said:

well put.

sassybritches said:

so Prince is not intelligent?

what's next? suing all tv stations that air the commercial.


i swear to god, if he fucks up all this good will that he's instilled in me in the last couple of weeks, even though i should know better....

udo said:

maybe Target owns the commercial

You guys have this all wrong right here.

Prince would be a hyprocrit if he DIDN'T remove the Target commercial at this point.

He is actually keeping his integrity moreso by removing a commercial from YouTube which could potentially benefit him financially.

He is totally keeping his integrity with this and I give him mad respect for it.

And he is actually defending the integrity of future artists' copyRIGHTS by exercising his own rights.

Mad props for following his heart and not giving in to the peer pressure of all the people who want to infringe on his copyrights just in the name of getting something for free.

did he want YOU TUBE to ask if it could be aired. I don't get it You Tube is the TV of cyberspace.Or he wants to make sure anything seen of him is done at Lotusflow3R only. Oh well he has his reasons....just don't understand it.


No One will ever understand Prince

On the surface, removing a commercial which is shown for free on television seems like an silly thing to do, but Prince's issue with YouTube has been going on a long while now and he's made it abundantly clear he doesn't want his image, music, etc available there. If he let this commercial stay up, he would look like a huge hypocrite (as someone earlier already stated) and it also might potentially mess up future legal wrangles with YT because it would weaken his argument against the site in principle.

So alhough it seems to make no sense to demand removal of a commercial, Prince is just staying consistent in his stance against YouTube. He kind of has to do this.

PEJ said:

artistically speaking, yes. i think prince lacks knowledge on a lot of other fronts.

IstenSzek said: