Prince: The Purple Justice Seeker

The artist formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince is mad. He’s ready to dish out some justice. Sure, no one is going to be too scared of his five-foot, ninety pound frame. That is until his massive bodyguards enter the room…escorting his high priced, ruthless, super-attorneys.

The Purple One is suing Youtube, and pretty much every other website on the internet, in an effort to help “the creators and owners of their music need to reclaim their art.”

He claims that Youtube is lying when they say that they cannot control what users put on their site. In the past, Youtube has honored requests for videos to be taken off their site because of copyright infringement. However, these efforts seem to be half-hearted. I’m sure both Hollywood and the music industry are cheering quietly as Prince berates the Google owned video site:

"YouTube ... are clearly able (to) filter porn and pedophile material but appear to choose not to filter out the unauthorized music and film content which is core to their business success."

He’s stating the obvious. But…
Youtube probably has a stable of lawyers whose ruthlessness and deceptive cunning is equal to that of Prince’s. It will be a bloody battle royale.

And if Youtube loses? They can always just play the whiny, spoiled kid who knows how to wield the First Amendment. “We can’t control everything that goes on our site. Come-on. We’re doing our best. You don’t want us to censor everyone, do you?”

Good luck Prince. You'regonnaneedit.