The Purple One, Prince, plans to sue YouTube and other online outlets in an attempt to “reclaim his art on the Internet,” according to a Reuters report.

“YouTube … appear(s) to choose not to filter out the unauthorized music and film content which is core to their business success,” according to a statement.

We couldn’t agree with you more, Prince. We’ve been critical of YouTube in the past for their lack of content filtering, be it copyright material or hate speech. One of these days they are going to get tired of fighting these court battles, and just buy some filtering technology that really works.

What happened to the copyright detection technology that the GooTube announced back in April?
Clearly it isn’t working very well.

Whether or not you believe that all content should be free, the law says it ain’t. The sheer volume of open copyright infringement on video sharing sites is outright appalling.

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