kaoboy72 said:

The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets are reporting that Apple is in exploratory talks with Tidal about purchasing their music service, which currently has streaming rights to much of Prince's music catalog. The deal, if completed, and if the artist catalogs that are currently owned by Tidal are transferred, could open up Prince's vast music collection to a much wider audience. Here's a link to one article that cites the original Wall Street Journal article (the actual article requires a subscription to read it in its entirety): https://www.google.com/am...nt=safari#

1. ORIGINAL POST: http://prince.org/msg/7/428686
2. DUPLICATE POST #1: http://prince.org/msg/7/428690 (FOUR entire posts after the original )
3. DUPLICATE POST #2: http://prince.org/msg/7/428709 (TWO duplicate posts about the same NON-PRINCE topic in 23 posts.)
4. WRONG FORUM: (See #5) http://prince.org/msg/8
5. NO WHERE IN ANY OF THE LINKED TO ARTICLES DOES IT MENTION PRINCE.
6. Upper right hand corner. See it? Google Custom Search. That means, when you enter a keyword, it will ONLY search prince.org. If a news story is older than 1 minute, it has already been posted on this site.

And lastly, FOR FUCK SAKE EVERYONE. TIDAL DOES NOT OWN PRINCE'S MASTERS. PERIOD. As if he would fight all of those years to get them back -- only to give them to Jay Z?

I mean, Jesus F. Christ. Come on.


















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[Edited 7/1/16 3:17am]

suomynona said:

Didn't he even switch to using PCs because he disliked Apple so much as a company?

novabrkr said:

Didn't he even switch to using PCs because he disliked Apple so much as a company?

Where do folks get these ideas?!?!

novabrkr said:

Most recently, he was using a Dell laptop. You can see it in one of his final Instagram videos, and the reporter mentioned him using Windows Media Player on it.

Not the catalog obviously but perhaps the digital distribution rights.

Knowing Prince's aversion to actually reading a contract (or even signing one), who knows that rights Tidal actually has. Now that people who respect law are in charge of Prince's affairs, I'm sure they'll be very interested in what is going on here.

Does the family have to give consent to the acquisition before Apple can stream and sell Prince music? it should, as it would have greatly dissapointed Prince to only a few months ago be so proud to give his digital rights to what he obviously throught was a Black-owned company to then find out that Tital is like any other startup with rich VC's funding a comapny with the eventual intent to sell to Apple anyway. (I suspect JayZ is like Chuck D here).

Unfortunately Prince may have signed a contract that does not give him (or his estate) the right to take back the distribution rights in the case of sale of Tidal?

Could be another case of Prince being hurt by his near psychotic distrust of legal and financial advisors.

Militant said:

kaoboy72 said:

I also misspoke when I said that Tidal owned Prince's music catalog. Thanks to the person who clarified that their actual agreement is for streaming rights. It's interesting to see that some people take their support of Prince as an artist so seriously that they get bent out of shape when a person makes a mistake with a detail. It's just a forum, and none of us are getting paid for our participation here. I thought we were here because of a common interest in Prince's music and to enjoy each other while we're here. Just my 2¢. Peace.

It wasn't just you. It was posted 3 times and the mods have done nothing about it. It's misinformation. We have stupid people around here that believe anything. So when they see the same post 3 times claiming that Tidal owns Prince's masters -- people are believing that shit.

In none of the 3 posts, did the media mention Prince. Shouldn't have been posted in this forum as it has nothing to do with Prince whether or not Tidal sells it's service to you tomorrow. You would still need to get permission to sell/stream Prince's music. Prince's agreement was with Tidal, not anyone else.

And you're right. SOME of us are here for the common interest in Prince's music. Posting articles and chainging their content based on a Jay Z lyric is misleading at best.

icequeen78 said:

I think some of the folks on here are clearly in fanatic territory.. not supporters but fanatics as he defined it... jeezus.

If you're referring to me, you're correct. You could say I'm fanatical about people posting the same thread 3 times in a 23 post period. That people can't use Ctrl + F. That people don't bother using the Custom Google Search bar even though they've been here for years. That people change the content of articles and basically lie so that they can post in this forum, when the articles should be posted either in Music Non Prince or General Discussion. It happens on a daily basis. It's not like the internet just came online and this is all new to people.

APPLE buying TIDAL is not true.

http://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=301755

Friday, July 1, 2016

APPLE BUYING TIDAL: GREAT IDEA, BUT IT'S NOT HAPPENING

The Wall Street Journal report posted Thursday afternoon that Apple is in talks to buyTidal is not true, according to inside sources at Apple. But it would make perfect sense for Cue, Iovine, et al, to take out Jay Z’s service and remove it from the urban scene, where Tidal artist exclusives from the likes of Rihanna, Kanye West and Beyoncé are dominating the streaming landscape, along with Apple Music’s own Drake. Is the Cupertino crew worried that buying Tidal would make them look predatory? Are they fearful of more government regulations and oversight? The reality is that Tidal is a pimple on the ass of a giant.

The latest intrigue is playing out amid bellyaching from Spotify, which is accusing Apple of trying to squelch the competition after Apple rejected the update to Spotify’s iOS app, and Elizabeth Warren, who called out Apple during a speech bemoaning the power of giant corporations.

feeluupp said:

APPLE buying TIDAL is not true.

http://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=301755

Iovine is quite familiar with the urban market Tidal is targeting.

Friday, July 1, 2016

APPLE BUYING TIDAL: GREAT IDEA, BUT IT'S NOT HAPPENING

The Wall Street Journal report posted Thursday afternoon that Apple is in talks to buyTidal is not true, according to inside sources at Apple. But it would make perfect sense for Cue, Iovine, et al, to take out Jay Z’s service and remove it from the urban scene, where Tidal artist exclusives from the likes of Rihanna, Kanye West and Beyoncé are dominating the streaming landscape, along with Apple Music’s own Drake. Is the Cupertino crew worried that buying Tidal would make them look predatory? Are they fearful of more government regulations and oversight? The reality is that Tidal is a pimple on the ass of a giant.

The latest intrigue is playing out amid bellyaching from Spotify, which is accusing Apple of trying to squelch the competition after Apple rejected the update to Spotify’s iOS app, and Elizabeth Warren, who called out Apple during a speech bemoaning the power of giant corporations.

YEAH BUT WHAT ABOUT TAFFY'S CATALOG? JAY Z IS GOING TO HAVE TO GIVE IT TO BEYONCÉ IN THE DIVORCE! OMFG WTFBBQ!!!111!!!!!!! THEN SHE WILL NEVER RELEASE ANOTHER PRINCE SONG AND JUST RE-RECORD EVERYTHING AS HER OWN!!!!1111

novabrkr said:

Didn't he even switch to using PCs because he disliked Apple so much as a company?

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if that's true i like him even more.

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can't stand that company or any of their freaking products. and i will not be bullied into buying their shit. most bluetooth manufacturers design their products to work best with apple products. which android phone owners haven't had problems connecting their phone to their car.

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fucking apple cocksuckers.

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suomynona said:

Kara said:

novabrkr said:

Didn't he even switch to using PCs because he disliked Apple so much as a company?

He had been using a Macbook lately. Suomynona, LOL, I feel ya.

He also used an iPad.

2olskool4u said:

Apple can go and suck a dick! So can Jay-z as far as I'm concerned

thats serious

Bitches I love my Iphone...fuck Android Im not ever going back

Well, sorry if I spread misinformation. I do remember that his comments on Apple services weren't terribly positive during the latter years. I've probably just established a connection because I remembered the Dell got mentioned in the article.

Typing this on an aluminium Mac keyboard attached to a PC I built myself running Linux with a heavy reliance on WINE.

kaoboy72 said:

I also misspoke when I said that Tidal owned Prince's music catalog. Thanks to the person who clarified that their actual agreement is for streaming rights. It's interesting to see that some people take their support of Prince as an artist so seriously that they get bent out of shape when a person makes a mistake with a detail. It's just a forum, and none of us are getting paid for our participation here. I thought we were here because of a common interest in Prince's music and to enjoy each other while we're here. Just my 2¢. Peace.

Agreed!

novabrkr said:

emesem said: