Fans row Pirate Bay’s fault, says Prince
p2pnet news | Music:- His Purpleness says allegations that he’s suing fan sites are all wrong.
And it’s all The Pirate Bay’s fault.
“Prince is not suing his fans, is not looking to penalise fans and nor is he looking to or inhibiting freedom of speech in any way,” ays a statement from his promoter, AEG, quoted in NME.
Oh.
“The issue was simply to do with in regards to copyright and trademark of images and only images, and no lawsuits have been filed, says the story,
“The three sites in question have falsely positioned themselves as representatives of millions of Prince fans. In fact, many have come out in support of Prince at his official site and even on the message boards of the unofficial sites in question.”
Apparently, “mediation” is currently resolving the matter, says the NME.
Meanwhile, “Prince is breaking new ground as the first artist to take on the world’s largest internet pirates bootleggers, including the notorious The Pirate Bay who have been misrepresenting themselves as a site for ‘the fans’,” says a statement in the story.
“They are in fact exploiting copyrighted material for their commercial gain. The site has flouted constant legal notices from artists and corporations throughout the world while cashing in on advertising monies. All the time, they keep up the pretence of being an anarchist, ‘free music’ fansite when it is really a massive money-making venture.”
Also See:
all wrong – Angry fans may sue Prince, November 7, 2007
NME – Singer hits back at fansite claims, November 9, 2007
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November 9th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
I don’t think Prince has millions of fans.
More like 10 girls that are paid to follow him around.
November 9th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
It,s prince or used to be so who really cares what he says or does – he is and always will be a wanna be
November 9th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
prince will now have his moment of fame on http://thepiratebay.org/legal
w00t
November 9th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
i swear he looks like a girl and is acting like one. he really think he can sue the pirate bay while they are in sweden? good luck to him
November 9th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Looks at the picture, “holy shit!, a black michael jackson!”. On a serious note this prince guy is in serious denile.
November 10th, 2007 at 12:20 am
His dis on the the PFU site was hysterically wicked. AND it pissed of a lot of die hard fans.
He’s not just biting the hand that feeds him – he’s cutting it off.
November 10th, 2007 at 6:51 am
How come the official release reads like sour grapes. I.e. it comes off sounding like “The Pirate bay is really a money-making venture…that we wish we had thought of first, and we are too egotistical to get on the bandwagon now that somebody ELSE is driving”.
November 10th, 2007 at 9:59 am
” âThe Pirate bay is really a money-making ventureâ¦that we wish we had thought of first, and we are too egotistical to get on the bandwagon now that somebody ELSE is drivingâ.
This is the exact same problem the Cartels have with AllOfMP3.
They need to kill it first before they set up one of their own like it.
Otherwise, they’d have to compete.
Same old song and dance.
November 10th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
TPB guys always say that they make very little money from advertising, and what they do make goes towards expenses like hardware and bandwidth. Its not like they’re chest-deep in good cocaine and beautiful but vapid women.
November 11th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Who the heck is Prince? (note for those of low intelligence who may actually post an answer to the question: this is called “humor” and is also a “rhetorical question.”)
November 12th, 2007 at 5:01 am
A big part of The Pirate Bay is a facade. They want to make a fortune some day. It’s the same as it was with Napster. The media companies claim that companies like this are using their content as a springboard to mainstream brand-recognition. Once they are as big as the big boys, they will compete with them rather than cooperate with them, because that would be more lucrative. The Pirate Bay can make far more money signing deals with artists than they can distributing content for advertising dollars.
Since the media companies own the content, they legally control the distribution of it. Of course they will try any legal (and a few illegal) means of keeping that control. If they do not, a future court could decide that they allowed it to happen and not grant them future claims to lost revenue.
Of course, I get whatever I want for free, so who am I to point the finger.
I just wish I thought of it first . . .
November 12th, 2007 at 8:45 am
On the 3rd Reader’s Write:
And he’s hired the very same company that has been at the center of
many of those legal threats: Web Sheriff.
Web Sheriff looks like it is run by a 12 year old kid, what with the
primary colored fonts in their letter and that ridiculous badge of
theirs.
Also, this story has also been posted over at TorrentFreak, where it
has brought the pro-RIAA trolls out of the woodwork, something that
has yet to happen here.
November 13th, 2007 at 8:41 am
Just a question. How does The Pirate Bay (may their admins live forever) actually make any money off of the traffic. As I see it, paying for bandwidth, servers, hosting, etc would cost them money..so how do they make a profit????
November 13th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
They don’t make a profit. They use advertising on the site to try to break even for the bandwidth bills, AFAIK. They’re not in it for the money, they’re in it for the freedom from what I can tell so far.
November 25th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
no