I count 6 sites with his whole album...for download.

Prince has been on cutting edge of Technology but....Thieves are in the Temple 2night.

I do not rip the released albums, I just do the unreleased tracks and such... but even then yeah I actually do feel bad about it. I feel like if I see him I should give him money. I did get a virus using bittorrent though goddamnit

Stealing

[Edited 7/19/10 22:13pm]

not yet. this guitar is not going to play itself is it?

also, go fuck yourselves.

nice.

Cx

mrsquirrel said:

not yet. this guitar is not going to play itself is it?

also, go fuck yourselves.

nice.

Cx

What do U think Prince should do with them????????

I say...start making examples ,,,give them some Lindsay Lohan jail company.

MoneyMade said:

I count 6 sites with his whole album...for download.

Shouldn't the title be:

Do you feel guilty ripping off, Prince ?

Like: where's my $77 t-shirt, my Croke Park concert, my 120 Euro's value for money Werchter concert ?

OOH!! the travesty

having to downgrade from the platinum plated toilet to gold plated toilet

its just not fair

Do you think the majority of folks will buy the CD, if it becomes available for sale in the States? I do.

ThreadBare said:

Do you think the majority of folks will buy the CD, if it becomes available for sale in the States? I do.

i dont think so

but i downloaded it but if i can get my hands on it in the us i will get the hardcopy too

I have bought every single album that Prince has released.

Will I buy 20Ten when it is available here?

Hell yes!
Was I going to wait until then to hear it?

Hell no!

feel guilty?

Whatchoo talkin' about Willis?!

chewymusic said:

I have bought every single album that Prince has released.

Will I buy 20Ten when it is available here?

Hell yes!
Was I going to wait until then to hear it?

Hell no!

feel guilty?

Whatchoo talkin' about Willis?!

Amen. Shit, I have bought several of his records several times! Come to think of it, I bought the Batman album (as just one example), first on cassette, then on vinyl, then on CD several years later, all new from the store. I paid to be in the npgmusic club. I paid for concert tickets. I bought a goddamned 30 dollar t shirt. When 20ten is released I'll definitely buy it. To me though, a shitty copy of the mp3 on a computer is akin to being able to hear it on the radio. Just not the same as owning the album. I myself am a fan of vinyl. I love having nice artwork to look at, etc. A quality package. If I buy something, I expect to own something, dig? And I will buy when the album is released stateside, like I said. In the meantime, here's me playing the record for my friends and promoting his work for him on the street level, strictly out of love. Half my friends had no idea Prince had a new record being released and half of them are now all excited to go buy the thing when it's released. So do I feel bad? HELL NO!! I feel fucking great, and I feel like I'm taking an active part in helping promote Prince and his work.

purplemajesty23 said:

I do not rip the released albums, I just do the unreleased tracks and such... but even then yeah I actually do feel bad about it. I feel like if I see him I should give him money. I did get a virus using bittorrent though goddamnit

Agreed...when the harvesters do not receive wages for their fruits....What joy awaits the planter?

Thanks for sharing your story

of course not. not only has he already been paid for that album, but i'm robin hood! i steal from the rich to give to the poor.

capitalists are soo 80's.

He should feel guilty for ripping a lot of his fans off if he don't put it out in some physical format all across the board. So no I wouldn't call it a rip...unless you fools went to other sites to sell the shit lol

purplemajesty23 said:

I do not rip the released albums, I just do the unreleased tracks and such... but even then yeah I actually do feel bad about it. I feel like if I see him I should give him money. I did get a virus using bittorrent though goddamnit

Child, bittorrents are the devil of the internet. I hardly go to them. They post a lot of stupid shit on torrent sites anyway.

Anyways, I won't be happy with dude unless he puts the album out. And it better not be one of those "special" deals with the stores lol

chewymusic said:

I have bought every single album that Prince has released.

Will I buy 20Ten when it is available here?

Hell yes!
Was I going to wait until then to hear it?

Hell no!

feel guilty?

Whatchoo talkin' about Willis?!

Also for some, this is the only way American fans can bring Prince up to speed lmao once it's in stores here it could be a success. Until then it's whatever.

Timmy84 said:

chewymusic said:

I have bought every single album that Prince has released.

Will I buy 20Ten when it is available here?

Hell yes!
Was I going to wait until then to hear it?

Hell no!

feel guilty?

Whatchoo talkin' about Willis?!

Also for some, this is the only way American fans can bring Prince up to speed lmao once it's in stores here it could be a success. Until then it's whatever.

Bring Prince up to speed???? Hmmmm Prince was one of the first major Artists to distribute music online.

Prince is probably more computer savvy than Steve Jobs...(Hence the internet is dead...you peeps can steal the files faster than they are uploaded.) So we have to promote and distribute through magazine/newspaper sells. It's the only way to bring the music to fans and get paid.

Pop music star Prince was long considered an Internet innovator and a friend to the culture of free file sharing.

He was among the first major recording artists to sell music online. This summer, Prince distributed more than 2 million free copies of his album Planet Earth as part of a newspaper promotion in the United Kingdom. Last year, he was honored with a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award for his "visionary use of the Internet to distribute music."

Prince was a pioneer in his efforts to give away music in order to promote concerts and merchandise. Long after he gave online distribution a shot, bands like Radiohead have, as recently as last month, made headlines with a similar plan.

But Prince, one of America's most successful recording artists for three decades, seems to have had a dramatic change of heart. Within the next few days, he is expected to cap an aggressive two-month legal campaign to protect his copyright by suing The Pirate Bay, a popular BitTorrent tracking site best known for helping people find unauthorized copies of music and movies. As reported Friday by CNET News.com, Prince plans to sue The Pirate Bay in three countries for encouraging copyright violations--the United States, France, and Sweden, where the Pirate Bay is based.

In a matter of months, Prince has achieved the unenviable distinction of being the musician with the most combative stance against file-sharing networks since Lars Ulrich, drummer for heavy-metal band Metallica, waved a list of 335,000 Napster screen names outside that company's Silicon Valley office in 2000.

But determining exactly why Prince decided to get tough with Internet piracy isn't easy. A representative for the musician said he wasn't available to discuss his views. In fact, he very rarely gives interviews. But the people helping his case say Prince has to take a stand, as unpopular as it may be.

"Prince is obliged to come up with the plan because no one else has done anything about this blatant piracy," said John Giacobbi, president of Web Sheriff, the antipiracy firm Prince hired to coordinate his copyright fights. "These guys are operating a huge piracy operation, but Prince means business. The Pirate Bay has had the ballpark to themselves for far too long."

Frustrated artists, cranky fans
File sharers who are now cursing Prince should remember that for nearly 10 years he has tried to solve a problem that has stumped the beleaguered record industry: how can you make money from digital music?

Prince was the first major artist to distribute an album exclusively online, though he later decided to release the record on disc. He continued releasing music over the Web after leaving his record label, Warner Bros., in the mid-1990s. It was only last summer, after giving away millions of albums for free, that a spokesman told The New York Times that "Prince's only aim is to get music direct to those that want to hear it."

Some believe Prince was disappointed by his online experiments. Whatever revenue he generated from Web sales doesn't appear to have been enough to prevent him from going to the record labels for help distributing his music on CD. Sony was due to release Planet Earth in the United Kingdom this year but backed out when Prince inked a deal with Britain's Sunday Mail to include a copy of the album with every newspaper circulated on July 15. The promotion also angered the country's music retailers.

[Edited 7/20/10 1:15am]

Start something then turn on it when you can't get an advance pay.

Anyways, still getting it in stores if it ever does come out here. Fuck it.

I DON'T feel guilty downloading Prince stuff,

because.... I buy everything official I can put my hands on.

thedance said:

I DON'T feel guilty downloading Prince stuff,

because.... I buy everything official I can put my hands on.

And at least it don't have numbers that fill your head in, that can't be good.

No qualms whatsoever

If 20ten was only available on 6 sites, Prince would be doing a stellar job keeping down the file sharing!

NouveauDance said:

If 20ten was only available on 6 sites, Prince would be doing a stellar job keeping down the file sharing!

I say Prince did in fact do a good damn job making sure the shit wasn't on Google. Makes things difficult for people to find it.

And also, really, you think many were actually gonna download something they weren't interested in? LOL

Prince's getting paid with the shit he's doing lol

Here's what the future will be................

In the future....Prince will for example,,,distribute three different CD's in many different publications. Therefore, if you want the CD with the best songs....you'll gladly buy all 3 magazines before anyone else can download the files online. Prince gets his advance...you get all the music.

MoneyMade said:

Here's what the future will be................

In the future....Prince will for example,,,distribute three different CD's in many different publications. Therefore, if you want the CD with the best songs....you'll gladly buy all 3 magazines before anyone else can download the files online. Prince gets his advance...you get all the music.

It better be on EBONY or I won't even download it.

He gonna do that shit in Europe, DO IT EVERYWHERE THEN! Simple as that.

MoneyMade said:

Timmy84 said:

MoneyMade said:

Here's what the future will be................

In the future....Prince will for example,,,distribute three different CD's in many different publications. Therefore, if you want the CD with the best songs....you'll gladly buy all 3 magazines before anyone else can download the files online. Prince gets his advance...you get all the music.

It better be on EBONY or I won't even download it.

He gonna do that shit in Europe, DO IT EVERYWHERE THEN! Simple as that.

Everyone loves the appearance of "Free" I can download Diddy's Derty money...

faster than you can say "Hello Good Morning.." But something about getting a free Prince CD in my Wallstreet journal........at no opportunity costs for mutually exclusive choices.

Win 4 All

MoneyMade said:

Timmy84 said:

It better be on EBONY or I won't even download it.

He gonna do that shit in Europe, DO IT EVERYWHERE THEN! Simple as that.

Everyone loves the appearance of "Free" I can download Diddy's Derty money...

faster than you can say "Hello Good Morning.." But something about getting a free Prince CD in my Wallstreet journal........at no opportunity costs for mutually exclusive choices.

Win 4 All

I don't know about Wall Street but a normal newspaper would do. But we got newspapers in all fifty states man lol I want to get it in a way where I won't have to go off state/off country to get it lol

Timmy84 said:

MoneyMade said:

Everyone loves the appearance of "Free" I can download Diddy's Derty money...

faster than you can say "Hello Good Morning.." But something about getting a free Prince CD in my Wallstreet journal........at no opportunity costs for mutually exclusive choices.

Win 4 All

I don't know about Wall Street but a normal newspaper would do. But we got newspapers in all fifty states man lol I want to get it in a way where I won't have to go off state/off country to get it lol

What state R U in???? That will depend on your CD version