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Kanye West Is Reportedly Considering Legal Action Against the Pirate Bay
An anonymous reader writes: Kanye West apparently has a new mission: to sue The Pirate Bay. Last weekend, West announced that his new album, The Life of Pablo, would be sold exclusively as a download from his website and the artist-driven streaming music service Tidal. The news sent Tidal to No. 1 on the U.S. Apple App Store, so West pulled the album from his site and announced it wouldn't be released on other streaming services. The Internet responded by pirating his album in droves.
And his music is terrible.
Can we please stop giving the retarded toddler throwing temper tantrums attention?
He'll keep this shit up until it stops, so fuck stop talking about this ignorant no talent asshat and move along. Treat him like the child he is?
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A) Kanye sucks and good luck to his BS. Piratebay won't give a crap what his loopy ass has to say.
B) Fuck you Slahdot. How many ads do you have to cram in your mobile site. Totally ridiculous.
...West announced that his new album, The Life of Pablo, would be sold exclusively as a download from his website and the artist-driven streaming music service Tidal. The news sent Tidal to No. 1 on the U.S. Apple App Store, so West pulled the album from his site...
Is something worded incorrectly here? This is written like he pulled his album because Tidal was suddenly really popular on the Apple App Store. But then it says he pulled his album from his site. Wouldn't that only leave it available on Tidal?
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" By 50 Percent, Stanley Kubrick, Apostle Paulâ¦Picasso⦠fucking Picasso and Escobar. By 50 percent more influential than any other human being."
What a tard, get off the pipe Kanye and quite trying to nig money for all your failures.
For inflicting not just his terrible "music" on us, but giving the media a reason to keep the Kardashians in the spotlight!
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Tell us if he actually does sue. Otherwise, do we really care what he is considering? He might be considering a run for President, He might be considering competing in NASCAR, he might be considering any number of things, but until he actually does one of them, it's even more uninteresting.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
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Does he like fish sticks?
Gosh, I know what I'll do.. I'll make my crap available only through one service so it's obnoxiously inaccessible. Not that I've even heard of this guy before, but how is anyone this fricking stupid? What did you expect to happen? Celebration? People have been complaining about content accessibility issues for years and you propagate the problem?
But just as TFA says, Good Luck With That!
Yo Kanye, I’m really happy for you, Imma let you finish but TPB has one of the best torrent sites of all time!
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
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i don't care for mr west. however, it's laughable to see a grown man act like this. he begs a billionaire for money because he's in a mountain of debt and instead of maximizing amount of money he could make, he instead chooses to restrict the release of his music to an obscure platform. the fans that are unhappy with these restrictions might have been willing to buy his music but now he's blown that chance and he's going after a website administrator who he blames for the choices of his fans which was an indirect result of his own choice to restrict the release. he brought these troubles upon himself and i have no sympathy for this emotionally stunted man-child who is about the waste the money he has made going after money he can no longer make.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
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Now, in case The Pirate Bay cowers (doubtful), there's the file hash for the swarm. So if TPB is culpable for providing file hash data , who else is? /. Me?
Guess when you're 56 million in the trick bag, publish a shitty no talent album, where the only business that makes money for you is dependant upon people paying $200 for tennis shoes, you point fingers on anyone you can.
My guess... filing for protection or rehab.
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Let's clarify what happened. Kanye made his album available on his website and Tidal (where he is a part owner). Tidal has no free ad-supported plans. It's expensive compared to other services. When Tidal surged in popularity on Apple's app store, Kanye pulled his album from his own website. Now it's only available from Tidal.
I'm tired of some albums only being available through different services. Instead of subscribing to one service or buying from one store (like iTunes), this pushes consumers to subscribe to multiple services. It's a pain in the ass. And it's because of greed.
According to Billboard Magazine, some users who purchased the album on Kanye's site were charged multiple times while others never received a copy of the album. Now Kanye says it won't be for sale again, only available for streaming. That means instead of buying a copy of an album and being able to listen to it whenever I want without paying again, Kanye wants people to pay each month for the ability to listen to his album. It's fucking greedy.
Because Kanye is a part owner of Tidal, he has two revenue sources. One is royalties from his album being streamed. The other is profits from the service because he has equity in Tidal. That means he collects royalties from his own work but collects profits from subscriptions to listen both to Kanye's music but that of other artists as well. If you're wealthy and powerful enough to be a part owner of Tidal, you get to profit from your own work plus that of other artists. That's as opposed to artists who aren't as wealthy and powerful, who will get paid at a lower rate because they only get royalties.
I always thought Taylor Swift came across as a bit whiny about Spotify. But at least she said she wanted higher royalties for everyone and expressed concern about artists who weren't wealthy like her. Kanye isn't concerned about other artists. Kanye is concerned about Kanye. He's greedy as hell.
I listen to a lot of new and indie artists who put their videos on YouTube. If I like their music, I'll happy buy it on iTunes. I understand that labels and the RIAA help to finance new artists so I'm not really opposed to them getting a cut. I'd certainly be willing to donate to support new artists if their music is good. But I hate the idea that, if I'm subscribing to a service to listen to some artists, that I have to give greedy bastards like Kanye a cut.
It's time for the market to say "fuck you" to Kanye and "fuck you" to Tidal. Don't subscribe. Support artists who aren't greedy bastards. Support artists who make far better music than Kanye. If people were smart, they would not subscribe to Tidal, stop listening to Kanye, and support artists who aren't greedy. The market could put Tidal out of business, but people are too fucking stupid.
Fuck Kanye. Fuck Tidal. Fuck their greed. That's all.
I don't like Mr. West's attitude and I couldn't name one of his songs but I not going to comment on how good or bad his music is. That's a matter of taste. It makes as much sense as ranting about different flavors of ice cream.
Guess what? Different people like different kinds of music and may be different from what you like. Get over it.
If he won , he could stop begging. Mind you, I wouldn't turn down $53 million. Is that begging :-)
Ok - let me know how he gets on with that.
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>The Internet responded by pirating his album in droves.
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and immediately delete it !
Metalica & Kanye West both deserve this treatment !
This is my opinion based on what little I know and understand of the rumors and lies Thanks, Randal
Mr. West is being the proverbial "Troll Charging for a Bridge-crossing."
The result is predictable. Macroeconomic forces are what they are. People will build another bridge, or simply find a way around the troll.
All those pirates pirating sheet music for the 2nd oboe part of W. A. Mozart's Op. 233 are doing so because the author has been dead forever. But somehow, some music publisher has tied it up in Copyright, and refuses to print more copies. What else is a person to do?
Gee, so the heavy pirating didn't start until he started smearing shit on the deal, hmmm, hmm hmm hmmmm.
Seems people's sense of fairness doesn't always match the laws, and if CEOs and copyright self-entitlers can get away with it, maybe there's a bit too much glass around for anybody to start complaining. There's nothing in that aphorism about who built the house.
As always, all IMO. Insert "I think" everywhere grammatically possible.
In other words:
"I refuse to take your money"
"Now I'm going to sue you for all the money I lost"
So Mr West didn't want to sell his album (licenses) and thousands of people didn't want to buy: Capitalism and the invisible hand works. What; you mean he wanted to bully thousands of people and get their money? Mr West is just doing to artists what the production/distribution companies like Sony do. But Mr West is doing it to his own kind.
If it were not for his regular antics I doubt me or many others would know who Kayne "The Dunning Kruger Effect that walks" West is.
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That's all.
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if you're not going to sell a fucking LP.. or a compact disc format, at the very least... online-only "albums" are just a collection of shit tracks not worth the time and expense of actually manufacturing a product people would buy in a store.
I remember when back in the day a black dude wanted attention he would just turn white and invite little kids to his house, now they get beligerant and sue those technology people, you know, the people with the glasses and stuff
its like he likes fishsticks or something
Please stop giving this guy an audience. The media should stalk covering him and the world will probably be a better place for it. I'm not sure which is worse, his performance on stage or off.
Keep the Classic Slashdot.
Just slap "the pirate bay" or "internet of things" at the end of your average TMZ article.
and he think he's the center of the universe.
And his music is terrible.
First Post Nails It
Close it down. Let's go to breakfast. Denny's anybody?
I may be poor, but at least I have more money than Kanye West.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
up to now, I've thinked [sic] TPB is a unusable service... there's some place to get DRM-free MP3 over this two sites? * I've used to buy music on 7digital.co.uk, but now it restricts the sales by country, which is a big problem for buyers here on Brasil (there's their's "Brazilian local site", but it has almost no stuff I've used to buy... Amazon does the same thing...)
What a hapless turd, never seen anyone make it so far then trash it so well.
The clocks ticking till the divorce "yeezus"
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
In USA, where P. B. does NOT reside? Or in Sweden, where he will receive long blonde middle finger? Who wants too much, gets noting...!
I could do with a grand slam breakfast.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Kanye is just pissed that he wasn't the one to come up with the idea to start a Twitter beef with Pope Francis.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I hate it, but he's stretching the language and speaking to his audience... who are insiders who understand the references.
Much of what we talk about casually is full of references. Given we're in tech, our references are pretty obscure too. We're all asked "why can't you just explain it to me?"
These are just a different kind of obscure.
The way I understood the lyrics was a bit more cynical:
"Sipping a chardonnay with my compatriots, when an officer visits us and questions us for being so unfashionable. We express some concern over such criticism, but the young officer takes this the wrong way and we're challenged to a duel. Some of my friends, though gentlemen, really do enjoy the sport of dueling. The officer however, was not practicing good etiquette, and surprised upon his would-be challenger a grievous injury. It will never be clear to me how officers can be so immune from the rules of civilized culture. After that, we had unfortunately lost our composure and things became most unsporting."
...but honestly, the only thing that really has me interested in this story is: who the fuck is actually getting their music from Tidal?
(Personally, I suspect it's a vanishingly tiny group of colossally stupid people PLUS a larger group of shills paid by the artists to 'fluff' the Tidal activity numbers.)
-Styopa
How many here really give two happy fucks about Kanye West?
I agree. If I saw any of Kanye West's music on Pirate Bay, I'd sue them for wasting everyone's time with that garbage...
This semi-literate clownish guy is not even good for that any more. His so-called music is a piece of crap, and now he's proving that, besides, he's a complete moron. Well, he had proven that plenty of times before - nothing new here.
I should sue the pirate bay for making this idiot's noise more prevalent in society.
This guy is hilarious.
It Looks Like Mark Zuckerberg Has Finally Responded To Kanye West's Request For Money
https://www.yahoo.com/music/looks-mark-zuckerberg-finally-responded-212500115.html
Sorry, your post is full of (c)rap. There's a huge amount of terrible and average music that absolutely no one cares about and won't listen to it. If the music is downloaded heavily, it's usually good. So all you haters are lying ... through your teeth.
He just fires from the lip.
Give a hand, not a hand-out.
This all could've been prevented if his mom carried condoms.
Chewbacon
The Bible is like Wikipedia: written by a bunch of people and verifiable by questionable sources.
So, guys with jackhammers would be music also -- it has plenty of sound, merciful silence, and office working women as fans.
I come here for the love
Some idiot fans are crowd funding free money for him. His fans are just as irresponsible as he is.
Tons of other idiots have done that.
Rap genius
Has anyone here listened to his new album?
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I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Black culture has many things of genuine value to offer,
such as the work of Miles Davis or too many blues musicians
to name here.
The crap that West produces has no cultural value, unless you want to fill up
a landfill and call that "culture".
Yo, Kanye, I'm happy for Tidal and Imma let you finish, but The Pirate Bay is the best music distribution system of all time! Kanye figure out why this guy is still famous? I sure as hell Kan't!
What do Mr. West, Coldplay and Adele all have in common? Their greed driving people back to piracy. Just when you thought that they finally began to understand what their fans = customers want... but they cannot see for the big dollar signs in their eyes obscuring their vision.
When the copyright term is "forever minus a day", live every day like it's the last.
He's in debt $53 million and wants more money to spend on his lavish lifestyle.
The people who have pirated this album have probably listened to it. So quit persecuting them, they've suffered enough.
Chelloveck
I give up on debugging. From now on, SIGSEGV is a feature.
We all know GitHub makes Pirate Bay look like a loser.
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Being married to a fat arsed porn star must be tough for him
Can I please know less about this... hrm... best artist of all time? News for nerds, my ass. What's next, Kardashian section on Slashdot?
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Moons Over My Hammy is where it's at.
At first I wonder why after all this time, we have an article where the GNAA could post on-topic, or as close as they could ever get to on-topic.
Where are they?
OTOH, I'm kinda glad they're not.
Close it down. Let's go to breakfast. Denny's anybody?
how about Waffle House instead?
It's like playing a Lucusarts game before computers existed. The fun was figuring out all the references, in jokes and double entrandes . The trouble is that crap isn't for everyone and most colleges make you spend a few years doing it...
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Strictly U.S. shit going on here.
I'd really like to know how many non-U.S. residents here on Slashdot actually even heard about the new Kanye West album, and actually considered listening to it. And the proportion of those who actually considered buying it. And then the proportion of those who DID.
Should shrink the numbers down to *very few*.
Jicehix
I wouldn't waste the time or bandwidth on his new album without just compensation.
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And we are all together
See how they run like pigs from a gun
See how they fly
I'm crying
Sitting on a cornflake
Waiting for the van to come
Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
Man you've been a naughty boy
You let your face grow long
I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus!
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Mr. City policeman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row
See how they fly like Lucy in the sky
See how they run
I'm crying
I'm crying, I'm crying, I'm crying
Yellow matter custard ...
Dripping from a dead dog's eye
Crabalocker fishwife
Pornographic priestess
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You let your knickers down
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His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
I'm really bummed. I was hoping after Kanye released "The Life of Pablo" he'd finally reveal what "TLOP" means.
Bahahahaha. And MC Hammer pants really really really look good. That's why people wore them, not because they were having 5 minutes of fame. Nope definitely because they looked good.
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He's never cared before, at least I haven't heard anything. What a coincidence that he's 53 million in debt--and announces it out of nowhere--and now he wants to sue TPB.
Roughly around the same time he wants Zuckerberg to just give him $1B as if it were a small favor.
What kind of financial trouble is this guy in? Taxes? Overspending on lavish shopping trips, cars and whatever else, and the credit cards came due? Gang extortion?
I mean, I don't agree with piracy, but he could have sued a long time ago. The courts will probably see this as a get-rich-quick scheme to alleviate his debt.
It's one thing to sue and recover damages when you're done wrong. It's another to sue and recover damages when you've never really cared before, but suddenly need or want money and decide to cash in on deeds done wrong to you.
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At all.
Sadly, a Libertarian cannot force his views on another, and freedom cannot spread as does the cancer known as religion.
I am working on an app that will insure my golden years will be awash in dollars.
It will simply banish any news item, any television story, any music performance live or recorded, and any an all reference however transmitted, to Mr West from annoying the buyer. At 99c a pop, I expect to surpass Bill and Melinda's bank account within weeks after release.
My only regret is it's not ready this very second.
Aw, what the Hell. The Linux version will be free. You guys deserve it.
Yeah maybe he can get back the $53 he lost. Why doesn't he try appearing on his wife's family reality show or maybe they are afraid his vast audience will spoil the show. LOL
All of this should be read in context with Kanye's mulit-day, totally moronic Tweet storm, which includes him crying that he's $53 million in debit and how expensive it was to take care of his family while living his high fashion life style. Finally exhorting and begging for Zuckerberg and other billionaires to help him out, so he can realize his artistic goals Worth reading for hoot.
But the best laugh came from the TPB's response to the news that Kanye West's threatens to sue them:
"“Kanye West is a blithering twat who has an incredible sense of self-importance. Even diehard fans are saying his new album sucks balls, but as for Mr. West suing TPB, good luck Kanye! Our legal department will be waiting."
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