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Thread started 01/21/14 9:17pm

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Prince launches huge lawsuit against bootleg sites.


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Prince is going after bootleg sites for damages y'all. I'm sure most people on this site will be familiar with all the names of the defendants. eek eek eek



Details - http://www.scribd.com/doc...-v-Chodera




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Reply #1 posted 01/21/14 9:22pm

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$1million per defendant! Whoa.

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Reply #2 posted 01/21/14 9:31pm

lwr001

Folks gonna learn he doesnt liek his hsit bootlegged then wonder why they get sued...Knowing and willing ly putting it out there after cease and desists have been sent out

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Reply #3 posted 01/21/14 11:20pm

thedoorkeeper

u go Prince. sue them motherfuckers.

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Reply #4 posted 01/21/14 11:41pm

Serious

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There we go again....

With a very special thank you to Tina: Is hammer already absolute, how much some people verändern...ICH hope is never so I will be! And if, then I hope that I would then have wen in my environment who joins me in the A....
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Reply #5 posted 01/21/14 11:45pm

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What I don't get - Prince goes after blogs that host material - but not the "labels" who make pressed discs of those same boots and sell them at $50+ each?

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Reply #6 posted 01/21/14 11:49pm

nursev
Jesus... eek
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Reply #7 posted 01/21/14 11:54pm

KCOOLMUZIQ

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About time! It needs 2B stop ASAP..............

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eye will ALWAYS think of prince like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. eye mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that prince wasn't of this earth, eye would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. prince
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Reply #8 posted 01/22/14 12:01am

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About time! It needs 2B stop ASAP..............

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I would have never thought that I would ever consider the Masterpiece banner not that annoying confused

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Reply #9 posted 01/22/14 12:02am

thedoorkeeper

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What I don't get - Prince goes after blogs that host material - but not the "labels" who make pressed discs of those same boots and sell them at $50+ each?

Good question.

Possibly a lawsuit against an individual producing a physical product

is more complicated.

These lawsuits against web sites may be more a threat that will shut down

the site and thats all he wants.

Has he ever taken a web site all the way to court or does he let things go

if the site stops making music available?

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Reply #10 posted 01/22/14 12:06am

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I am not really that much of a fan anymore that I care much, but it's sad for the fans who enjoyed these sites and the ones who put effort into it to create them without earning money with it IMO. I understand that Prince wants to control his work, but doing things like this is making him lose more and more fans.

With a very special thank you to Tina: Is hammer already absolute, how much some people verändern...ICH hope is never so I will be! And if, then I hope that I would then have wen in my environment who joins me in the A....
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Reply #11 posted 01/22/14 12:10am

bonnie184

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u go Prince. sue them motherfuckers.

sarcasm i hope...the boots keeps the fans interested. Fans still pay for what gets released...which happens to be the philosophy of the majority of the defendants listed in this lawsuit. We are just fans that want more, especially if it's from 80-88, imo.

Maybe someday Prince will listen to reason and hire someone to start issuing something like a bootleg series, vault series and the extremely overdue remasters (80's protoge albums too please)...which is what a majority of his HOF contemporaries are doing with their catalogs. Prince only wins releasing something like this. Fans are happy, money is made and his legacy grows. wildsign

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Reply #12 posted 01/22/14 12:11am

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Militant said:

What I don't get - Prince goes after blogs that host material - but not the "labels" who make pressed discs of those same boots and sell them at $50+ each?

This.

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Reply #13 posted 01/22/14 12:16am

KCOOLMUZIQ

thedoorkeeper said:

u go Prince. sue them motherfuckers.

eye will ALWAYS think of prince like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. eye mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that prince wasn't of this earth, eye would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. prince
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Reply #14 posted 01/22/14 12:20am

dbpdexter

He always does this when he's about to release an album.

He needs to thank these sites for keeping people interested in him.

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AKA PDEXTER
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Reply #15 posted 01/22/14 12:30am

CocoRock


pray PLEASE let Prince have a song called "Prayer 4 Releif". beg lol lol lol lol

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Reply #16 posted 01/22/14 12:33am

babynoz

Militant said:

What I don't get - Prince goes after blogs that host material - but not the "labels" who make pressed discs of those same boots and sell them at $50+ each?


That's what seems dumb to me. I would expect him to go after people who are making money on ebay and whatnot first and foremost.

I admit I haven't been paying much attention to what Prince has been doing lately so I might not be up on his latest stunts. lol

Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise.
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Reply #17 posted 01/22/14 12:47am

nursev
Dude takes the money his fans pay him and uses it against us. Yes he's talented and all that lol but really every year he pulls some bullshit like this. Its really kinda sad to see him waste so much of his time and energy on shit like this. Its getting to the point that his letigations are all he's doing. Truly sad. Im surprised this site is still here after all these years-he has laid the hammer down on every other site. He really does hate his fans.
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Reply #18 posted 01/22/14 12:51am

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There we go again....


---//No he has only sent cease and desist letters up until now.
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Reply #19 posted 01/22/14 12:56am

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nursev said:[quote]Dude takes the money his fans pay him and uses it against us. Yes he's talented and all that lol but really every year he pulls some bullshit like this. Its really kinda sad to see him waste so much of his time and energy on shit like this. Its getting to the point that his letigations are all he's doing. Truly sad. Im surprised this site is still here after all these years-he has laid the hammer down on every other site. He really does hate his fan. No he does not like bootleggers. Putting simple and plain.
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Reply #20 posted 01/22/14 1:02am

nursev
If it wasnt for bootleggers his career wouldve been over years ago. He has done so much to make people forget him and they have. Yes bootlegging is wrong, but how long is he gonna pursue these lawsuits? And who is next? Dude will even go after regular ass fans...really sad.
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Reply #21 posted 01/22/14 1:04am

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thedoorkeeper said:



Militant said:


What I don't get - Prince goes after blogs that host material - but not the "labels" who make pressed discs of those same boots and sell them at $50+ each?



Good question.


Possibly a lawsuit against an individual producing a physical product


is more complicated.


These lawsuits against web sites may be more a threat that will shut down


the site and thats all he wants.


Has he ever taken a web site all the way to court or does he let things go


if the site stops making music available?


///// He has never taken it all the way despite the b.s.on this board.
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Reply #22 posted 01/22/14 1:14am

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It seems the blogs were forcibly shut down at the same time this letter was drafted. He knew they'd be shut down, but this seems to be bigger than just that. According to the document, he wants a trial, with a jury???
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Reply #23 posted 01/22/14 1:17am

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eye will ALWAYS think of prince like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. eye mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that prince wasn't of this earth, eye would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. prince
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Reply #24 posted 01/22/14 1:30am

thedoorkeeper

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We are just fans that want more

And thats what it comes down to - you want something so therefore you should have it.

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Reply #25 posted 01/22/14 1:32am

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Read the whole thing. It's laughable. They're making up Does 9-20 out of thin air.
"does my cock look fat in these jeans?"
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Reply #26 posted 01/22/14 1:37am

babynoz

Militant said:

It seems the blogs were forcibly shut down at the same time this letter was drafted. He knew they'd be shut down, but this seems to be bigger than just that. According to the document, he wants a trial, with a jury???


The jury demand is routine in this type of complaint.

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Reply #27 posted 01/22/14 1:37am

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bonnie184 said:



thedoorkeeper said:


u go Prince. sue them motherfuckers.





sarcasm i hope...the boots keeps the fans interested. Fans still pay for what gets released...which happens to be the philosophy of the majority of the defendants listed in this lawsuit. We are just fans that want more, especially if it's from 80-88, imo.


Maybe someday Prince will listen to reason and hire someone to start issuing something like a bootleg series, vault series and the extremely overdue remasters (80's protoge albums too please)...which is what a majority of his HOF contemporaries are doing with their catalogs. Prince only wins releasing something like this. Fans are happy, money is made and his legacy grows. wildsign




My neighbor was having a yard sale. There was some tennis shoes I liked sitting out there on the lawn. It was a pair of green Celtic flavored '87 con's. I liked them and bought them.

I wanted something else tho. Just a simple want. I wanted the Lakers flavored purple and gold '87 con's. But he wasn't selling them. They were resting in the hallway closet on the upper shelf. I walked in his house and took them...and only them. I wanted them and he wasn't selling them so i took them. If he has other shoes I want for sale on the lawn, I will buy them...and I hope that me taking the purple and gold con's will demonstrate to him what I want and that me buying the Celtic flavored shoes(I DESPISE the '87 Celtics) will demonstrate that I will pay for shoes if he sells them. If he would have had them for sale...I would have bought them....but instead...I took them.

He'll learn.
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I mean everybody knows that purple and gold '87 con's sell. Magic johnsons signature shoe in a year the lake show took the NBA finals against their ultimate rivals..a decades worth of back and forth between the two...legendary. He knows and EVERYBODY knows the shoes would have gotten sold if he had sold them...IMO. He wins I win...if what he wants is to sell the shoes that is.
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Reply #28 posted 01/22/14 1:45am

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$1 Million per defendant? Really?!?

lol That's hilarious. Or, it would be if it wasn't so sad...

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Reply #29 posted 01/22/14 1:46am

Kobe

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Prince needs to grow up and stop being an idiot with stupidty

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