Musical person Prince who likes sueing his fans for fan sites and mothers who film babies dancing to prince tracks is now taking on the pirates bay with wave after wave of lawyers. Let's see how well that works.
This should be quite interesting. The US Lawsuit doesn't count for much internationally. They've notoriously fallen over. They should move it to the Principality of Sealand!
Submitted by brainwipe on Mon, 2007-11-12 16:01
The whole Prince thing makes me laugh; especially Prince Fans United. Maybe I'm just weird, but the moment I had to band together with other people to protect myself from aggressive litigation by someone, would be the moment I stopped calling myself a "fan" of that person.
If I was those people, I'd have just said "fair enough, fuck you then," taken down the website and never bought another Prince CD (not that I ever have - how could he compare to the Spice Girls?) or said anything positive about him or his work again. If he doesn't want fans, then let him make his way without them.
Basically, like so many in the music industry, he's a dick with a monstrous ego who's forgotten that without the people he's trying to persecute, he's nothing.
And as for taking on piratebay; should be fun to watch.
Submitted by AggroBoy on Mon, 2007-11-12 16:15
it sounded like he was going after a Capone option by having lawyers scrutinise the pirate bay's tax records.
Which is about the only tactic the riaa has yet to try
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This should be quite interesting. The US Lawsuit doesn't count for much internationally. They've notoriously fallen over. They should move it to the Principality of Sealand!
The whole Prince thing makes me laugh; especially Prince Fans United. Maybe I'm just weird, but the moment I had to band together with other people to protect myself from aggressive litigation by someone, would be the moment I stopped calling myself a "fan" of that person.
If I was those people, I'd have just said "fair enough, fuck you then," taken down the website and never bought another Prince CD (not that I ever have - how could he compare to the Spice Girls?) or said anything positive about him or his work again. If he doesn't want fans, then let him make his way without them.
Basically, like so many in the music industry, he's a dick with a monstrous ego who's forgotten that without the people he's trying to persecute, he's nothing.
And as for taking on piratebay; should be fun to watch.
it sounded like he was going after a Capone option by having lawyers scrutinise the pirate bay's tax records.
Which is about the only tactic the riaa has yet to try