Despite Sheletta’s pronouncements yesterday, apparently the Artist Formerly Known as “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince” Prince has a problem with puppets: Prince hates the internet. At least, he hates the parts of the internet that are about Prince. Remember a few months ago when he went after his own fan site for posting unauthorized pictures of his royal purple self? Well, now his label is seeking out any and all Prince-related YouTube activity and blocking videos (including the one we posted in April of Prince covering Radiohead’s “Creep”), and has even gone so far as to tamper with a homemade “PEEPle Rain” video made by local blogger Greg Swan of Perfect Porridge as part of a PEEPS Diorama Contest that he participated in last spring.
Purple Pain
Jun 3 2008 — 2:00am
10 Reader Comments
12:34 am
This is one “purple reign” I cannot support.
1:14 am
How does Prince walk around with that 30-foot pole stuck up his ass?
8:51 am
what, you think you’re too good for us?
well fuck you, prince.
we don’t need you.
we’ve got lolcats and thousands of varieties of sick porn. not to mention like, news and shit.
so piss off, you purple wanker.
signed,
the internet
9:19 am
Here’s the link to the full letter YouTube sent me.
It’s so strange the audio is still there when it says it’s blocked.
10:28 am
Prince really pisses me off sometimes. I use to have a youtube link to an old video performance where Prince,James Brown, and Michael Jackson were all on the same stage jamming.
12:48 pm
Purple Reign of Terror.
Besides the fact that he’s 2′2″, I’d really like to know why he’s such a dick about this. Didn’t he even take down stuff from his own website?
12:51 pm
People call me rude, I wish we were all nude
I wish there was no black and white, I wish there were no rules
liar liar assless chaps on fire.
3:45 pm
i’m not sure how dmca notices work when there are multiple entities involved – radiohead, for example, clearly owns the rights to ‘creep’, though prince might own recording or performance rights – but it’s clear youtube isn’t making the distinction.
in any case, I concur. fuck you, prince. we are the internets and we will win.
4:11 pm
Btw, it just gets worse…If you loved PEEPle Rain, be sure to check out PEEP My Ride. Usher is totally the next one to sue me.
2:51 pm
porridge, do you think he objected because you didn’t use a purple peep for him?
awesome diorama!