Comments on: Prince gives the finger to his fans

By: The Angry Offender

The Angry Offender — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:07:55 +0000

Hint: the previous comment was humor. If you didn’t pick up on that, please impale yourself on a turkey baster.

By: The Angry Offender

The Angry Offender — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:07:02 +0000

ARRRHHHH MOTHERFUCKERS! AVAST! I BE A PIRATE! IM IN UR POOTERZ, STEELIN UR SONGZ, RIPPIN UR TRAX, BURNIN UR MP3Z, GOT ME SKULL-N-XBONZ HAT AN’ ME CITRUS FROOT WIRE SOFWAREZ, GUNNA GET ME SUM RAR FYLZ, BREAK ME SUM COPYSHITS! OH SHIT MP3 POLICE PULLIN A ‘BAY ON ME CABLE MODEM!!!!111

Yeah, uh-huh, music pirates: serious fucking business. What-the-shit-ever. If your fans are pirates, where are their cannons…? Oh wait…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 02:20:27 +0000

Every time someone mentions “pirate” I laugh uncontrollably. The term was applied to suggest atrocious crimes (which real pirates used to commit; id est, the sea faring brigands). The copyright and patent law system is the real source of piracy; created for the sole benefit of the wealthy (mostly companies). I have yet to see any evidence where these laws encourage innovation. If anything they are designed to reinforce monopolies. Thus, innovation is stifled and narrow mindedness prevails.

As long as our countries are run by corrupt politicians with vested interests in maintaining the status quo (or put another way, are paid to support the interests of the wealthy), things will never change. The only recourse is to change the system of government.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:41:00 +0000

What is Prince?

By: Stan

Stan — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:19:09 +0000

I’m giving you the finger Prince, and I just downloaded and burned 7 of your Cds!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:45:42 +0000

To get rid of pirates, change copyright laws!

they created the pirates, only they can get rid of the pirates!

Industry WILL adapt, this way the world doesnt have to adapt to a industry! witch is so WRONG its insane, but most seem to be less intelligent then a rock when it comes to it..

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:07:44 +0000

And a former fan give it four midle fingers back to Prince. Yes! My two dirty feet included!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:42:14 +0000

“I would guess he has to jump through hoops to get back in the music industries good graces after giving away his cd.”

The music industry is irelevant and resistance is futile. Thie only thing that matter is the fan. This Prince is a moron or may be the RIAA kidnaped is wife or his kid or something if he has one?

By: The Angry Offender

The Angry Offender — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:32:04 +0000

For people who no one in the mainstream really gives two craps about (who the heck are the “Arctic Monkeys?” I never heard of these fools in the first place!) they owe 95% of their current success to file sharing. After all, a 10-second sample of a song does not a preview make, and in the era of three songs maximum per album being decent to listen to (with a minimum of ZERO), one has to hear a lot of songs before one decides if a band produces ANYTHING worth buying in the first place. Before, people wouldn’t buy; now, people “steal this album” first and give it a once-over before they decide to add it to their CD collection.

What we have for each of these bands is one of two things: either they make crappy songs to begin with, and file sharing is killing their income because they don’t deserve it in the first place, or they’re just idiots who don’t recognize how they’re maintaining success in the first place.

And like I’ve said before, it’s all about giving the customer what they want. If Prince thinks we should purchase his entire album without previewing it, he can go to Hell in a very small and cramped handbasket, because we don’t have to conform to what he thinks we should do–there’s a big difference between what’s written into law and what actually can be done, and even though “online file sharing” can be considered illegal, ten million users and growing can’t be wrong!

It’s not my problem that these morons are stuck with major labels. They can go down with ‘em for all I care. What makes these fools so special that they think they can tell me how I get my music?

And on a personal note…Prince sucks, for the record. Really. He’s not an artist, he’s a Hoover upright vacuum with 15 big powerful amps cranked all the way up on high, so I don’t want to hear him TALKING until he stops SUCKING SO BAD, but that’s just me, isn’t it? What? You’re asking me “who the heck is Prince?”

…I thought so…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:58:30 +0000

Prince is being a douche but I would guess he has to jump through hoops to get back in the music industries good graces after giving away his cd. It’s not an excuse and I certainly an not a Prince fan but I have noticed that all of this happened after the cd giveaway.