Hopefully I changed the privacy settings on this playlist so that it works. At any rate, I have added 60 videos over the past month + - performances, concerts, interviews - to my Prince YouTube Channel. Chances are most here have seen all of these, but just in case - here's the link:

My Prince YouTube Playlist

If you know of some great ones that I'm missing, post the link in the comments!! I'd like to collect as many different appearances as possible.

Just want to say that your youtube channel won't be around for too long. Not when web sheriff gets it shut down. Enjoy it while you can.

luv4u said:

Just want to say that your youtube channel won't be around for too long. Not when web sheriff gets it shut down. Enjoy it while you can.

Haha, I almost posted that. Posting here about videos usually gets them shut down faster.

Too bad, because the web sheriff should be focusing on removing actual bootlegs that are for sale.

luv4u said:

luv4u said:

RenaRF said:

luv4u said:

Just want to say that your youtube channel won't be around for too long. Not when web sheriff gets it shut down. Enjoy it while you can.

Word. I already had to delete a bunch of links I'd watched that have since been deleted. Yet, I do find that if it get hammered down in one place, it pops up in another. Overseas sites are fabulous for having a ton of Prince stuff outside of the reach of US laws.

ok, if you say so

RenaRF said:

luv4u said:

Just want to say that your youtube channel won't be around for too long. Not when web sheriff gets it shut down. Enjoy it while you can.

Sorry in advance if this is a novice question, but obviously those videos are pulled from someone else's public YouTube feed, which would mean that my playlist is no more and no less likely to be "found" than any others, correct?

The others didn't come here and leave a road map to their locations.

Ingela said:

RenaRF said:

How does a video end up on youtube .. it starts with the artist n label then what .. the label says here you go YT .. dont artists know this ahead of time ? Isnt it in their best interest to have them out there as a way of keeping people interested. Painters paint n hardly ever make money do they cry n stop painting .. no. So you dont get rich off your videos if your hot as fuck youll get paid eventually n if your videos help you then what the fuck are they crying for damn. Metallica says yes record our shows do everything you want they just keep on rolling n making money .. never understood Ps whiney bla bla need ..

Jon1967 said:

[Flame snip - luv4u]

Jon1967 said:

Bunsterdk said:

I admit to downloading stuff from YouTube, but only stuff that's not available for sale anywhere (legally anyway). Mainly live performances.

If this type of thing was left on YouTube or uploaded elsewhere where the artists got the money from it being played, then I wouldn't have to download it. But as it is, I haven't had access to most of his music before his death and nobody is taking it away from me again now!! I'd gladly pay for it, but they don't even want my money. They just want to take the music away.

RenaRF said:

RenaRF said:

luv4u said:

Just want to say that your youtube channel won't be around for too long. Not when web sheriff gets it shut down. Enjoy it while you can.

Word. I already had to delete a bunch of links I'd watched that have since been deleted. Yet, I do find that if it get hammered down in one place, it pops up in another. Overseas sites are fabulous for having a ton of Prince stuff outside of the reach of US laws.

Really? I might have to Tour Overseas...

Yes it gone and so will this thread....in before the lock

p.s. YT and music being posted online aint going no where...its 2016...no laws gonna change that.

NEXTTTTTTTTTT

Ingela said:

I sure hope someone sues your ass. Prince has always been right in terms of YouTube.

When he was alive he was. Now not so much. I was all for Prince getting paid. I don't really care too much about his squabbling half siblings, and the record companies.

And finally the labels are going after YouTube and hopefully you. More music is listened to today than in the entire history of man kind, but musicians are making less and less and not being able to make a living off their work. Something is wrong with that picture.

More people make a living in the music industry today than they ever have in the past. Fact.

YouTube has grown through illicit work. It has been the onus of people like Prince to hire agencies to sift through the YouTube mess to issue take down after take down instead of Google itself. Thankfully that will soon change and put the onus back on YouTube or face serious monetary consequences. Finally YouTube will be taken out back and get the beat down it deserves. YouTube can use machine learning to detect your face and objects and everything else and you tell me it can't detect the illicit material that propels it? Bullshit.

Machine learning is just that. Learning. In order to know which files should be pulled down. Artists must first supply Youtube with the offending material. The machine watches the material and future uploads can be pulled.

Prior to machine learning this wasn't possible. People are more efficient. Plus slight alterations to a video would make the video seem different.

I only wish Prince was alive to see YouTube finally get the beat down it deserves. It took labels and artist long enough to really get its shit together to go after them/you, but better late than never. Keep an eye on the news for this.

Prince was a fan of youtube. He found several band members from the site. He just didn't like the fact Youtube dictated how much they would pay. Prince wanted to set his own price. Although he had the 3EG channel which did see some uploads.

If it wasn't for youtube, many artists would find it much more difficult to connect to their audience.

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Noodled24 said:

Jon1967 said:

Ingela said:

Bunsterdk said:

Ingela said:

It has nothing to do with Prince now. It's about theft. It's about the decimation of an industry. It's about getting paid for your hard work.

If that were true they would only remove things that can be bought elsewhere. This is about putting control over music, and I choose music any day. They don't care about artists making money at all. They just want to control the outlet of Prince music which will mean there are only few things available, mostly mainstream most likely. They couldn't care less about his actual body of work and legacy. You are very naive if you think we'll be able to buy all of this ever, I'm afraid.

Ingela said:

Bunsterdk said:

If that were true they would only remove things that can be bought elsewhere. This is about putting control over music, and I choose music any day. They don't care about artists making money at all. They just want to control the outlet of Prince music which will mean there are only few things available, mostly mainstream most likely. They couldn't care less about his actual body of work and legacy. You are very naive if you think we'll be able to buy all of this ever, I'm afraid.

Well it is true and you're the one that's naive. I simply post facts, you base it on your emotions.

So folks. I made the playlist private again. It seemed to bother some so much, it just frankly isn't the hill I'm going to die on here.

I posted the link so others could enjoy what is already publicly available. The overwhelming vast majority of the content I had on there were from appearances on TV - The Ellen Show, Oprah, a Canadian music show, Arsenio Hall, Jay Leno, Saturday Night Live, The View, BET, awards shows, Superbowl halftime show, ad nauseum ad infinitum. Those videos are the property of the network/other entity that owns/distributes the shows in question, which is why they aren't/weren't subject to web sherriff smackdowns.

But apparently the butthurt runs deep here. And rather than cause a divide, it seemed infinitely simpler to just re-initiate the privacy settings.