Prince is suing YouTube. He doesn’t like that YouTube is playing videos of him looking grainy instead of the taut face he actually possesses in real life. He’s probably also pissed off about his chest hair implants looking fake on YouTube.

“Prince believes strongly that as an artist the music rights must remain with the artist and thus copyrights should be protected across the board.

“Very few artists have ever taken this kind of action over their rights. Yet Prince has showed time and time again he is ready to challenge the system in new ways to put artists and music first.”

The singer has instructed Web Sheriff, a company which specialises in combating online piracy and copyright infringement, to act on his behalf.

Prince is famously protective of his music rights - in the mid-Nineties he changed his name to a squiggle and wrote the word ’slave’ on his cheek as part of a contractual wrangle with then record label Warner Bros.

Fans at his recent gigs at The O2 arena in London were banned from taking photographs or video footage on their mobile phones, but many still posted clips on YouTube.

John Giacobbi, managing director of Web Sheriff, said: “Some artists are very relaxed about the use of their image and music on the internet, some less so.

“Prince feels very strongly that people should remember his concerts as they were, not as some grainy mobile phone footage.”

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Well, jokes aside, I think Prince ought to just STFU. There is no stopping of people circulating concert pictures or video clips on the Internet. It’s basically impossible. He should just embrace it instead of fighting it.

Pirating his music is one thing, but having your fans upload clippings of your concert to YouTube (technically only up to 10minutes) should be appreciated instead, cause it shows that he’s still relevant, something which I totally do not understand why.