Music icon Prince has filed a $22 million lawsuit against a bunch of fans for sharing concert footage which, according to lawyers, enabled the illegal “bootlegging of Prince’s material”.
In what the 55-year-old artist’s lawyers claim to be the “an interconnected network of bootleg distribution which is able to broadly disseminate unauthorised copies of Prince’s musical compositions and live performances”, Prince is targeting dedicated and long-time fans for sharing downloads to a number of concerts, some of which are over 30 years old.
The lawsuit was received by the U.S. District Court in San Francisco and is aimed at 22 individual blog sites with some of the fan-dedicated pages no longer in operation.
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This isn’t the first time Prince has gone after fans- he filed a suit against a Pennsylvanian mother in 2007 after she uploaded a 29-second video of her young child dancing to the 1984 No.1 hit ‘Let’s Go Crazy’. He has also battled with the likes of Vine and YouTube to have homemade footage of his concerts removed from their websites.
The recording giant appears to be more amazingly in the middle of a serious love-hate relationship with fans. His latest actions have enraged a number of Prince diehards on message boards, just months after he hosted a ‘sleepover’ concert at his Minneapolis mansion where guests were required to wear pyjamas.
Prince is releasing his 33rd studio album later in 2014 with his all-female group 3RDEYEGIRL entitled PlectrumElectrum.
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