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And Finally Releases
Fans complain as Prince charges for new video
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 12 February 2013
When people talk about innovators in the modern music industry, Prince is rarely mentioned. Mainly because in his search for new business models he’s rarely come up with things that anyone else attempts to replicate. If he’s not giving away albums with newspapers, he’s suing babies. His latest ruse is to charge people to watch his new video.
Although, actually, selling music video downloads is nothing new, some Prince fans have complained (and some rather angrily) that the only way to see the video is to buy it from his website (takedown notices to people who do put it online seem to be heading out thick and fast at this stage).
Though this possibly says more about music fans’ sense of entitlement than it does about Prince. After all, Prince has just decided that a thing he made has a value and just because it exists doesn’t mean you have an automatic right to see it for free. By the way, you owe me a fiver for reading this news story.
