PRINCE AND HIS LAWYERS have unleashed a Purple Rain of terror on fans he believes to be bootleggers.
The Artist presently known as Plaintiff has filed a $22 million lawsuit against 22 people, accused of illegally posting concert footage on Facebook, blogs and other online spots.
The move has split Prince’s kingdom, but the suit says, The defendants in this case engage in massive infringement and bootlegging of Prince’s material.
For example, in just one of the many takedown notices sent to Google with respect to Doe 2 (a/k/a DaBang319), Prince identified 363 separate infringing links to file-sharing services, with each link often containing copies of bootlegged performances of multiple separate musical compositions.