RIP Prince

[Anonymous]

I just logged onto iTunes and now suddenly almost all of Prince's music is available, even his latest album from 2015. This is fantastic!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just logged onto iTunes and now suddenly almost all of Prince's music is available, even his latest album from 2015. This is fantastic!

I hope he expressed a desire to do that in his will, otherwise someone might have jumped the gun and there will likely be a lawsuit.

I suspect the battle over his legacy and empire will be epic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just logged onto iTunes and now suddenly almost all of Prince's music is available, even his latest album from 2015. This is fantastic!

I hope he expressed a desire to do that in his will, otherwise someone might have jumped the gun and there will likely be a lawsuit.

I suspect the battle over his legacy and empire will be epic.

Nah, the lawyers will stop once they've exhausted the estate.

[Anonymous]

There is no way apple can legally publish Princes music for purchase without the permission of the owner of the music. No way. And apple isn't stupid. Van Jones was saying on CNN he was positive Prince had his estate already planned in the event of his death, including the distribution of his music catalog and his funeral. Look how quickly and quietly his cremation and service took place after his death. I am sure his estate is under the control he wanted.

[Anonymous]

I don't care if his autopsy or toxicology is ever released. Princes legacy is so much bigger than the way he died.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no way apple can legally publish Princes music for purchase without the permission of the owner of the music. No way. And apple isn't stupid. Van Jones was saying on CNN he was positive Prince had his estate already planned in the event of his death, including the distribution of his music catalog and his funeral. Look how quickly and quietly his cremation and service took place after his death. I am sure his estate is under the control he wanted.

That might be true, but that doesn't prevent someone from contesting it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no way apple can legally publish Princes music for purchase without the permission of the owner of the music. No way. And apple isn't stupid. Van Jones was saying on CNN he was positive Prince had his estate already planned in the event of his death, including the distribution of his music catalog and his funeral. Look how quickly and quietly his cremation and service took place after his death. I am sure his estate is under the control he wanted.

That might be true, but that doesn't prevent someone from contesting it.

Contest what, his will?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't care if his autopsy or toxicology is ever released. Princes legacy is so much bigger than the way he died.

This - as long as he wasn't involved in something vile any discussion on his personal doings is meaningless to me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Combining the overdose the prior week with the blind item about AIDS, I speculate that Prince's fatal overdose is because of his weakened system, not that he was addicted to opiates per se. The doses may have been high but not fatal to someone with a healthy immune system. I think it was just a matter of time until the disease caught up with him.

Perhaps. But only addicts take dilaudid and fentanyl. And they buy it on the street or pay a doctor with no ethics for the scrips. Nobody prescribes those drugs; they're administered to addicts in the hospital under observation.

This is not true. I was prescribed Dilaudid after surgery (and it is commonly prescribed for post surgical pain). I was also prescribed Fentanyl when it turned out I was allergic to the more commonly prscribed narcotics. Fentanyl is also commonly prescribed for cancer pain. The problem is health care providers started prescribing opiates for non-acute pain and were told the addiction risk for people in actual pain was very low. Unfortunately, that turned out not to be the case, and many more people legitimately prescribed opiates for pain became addicted. Those whose prscription pain medication supply has dried up (due to tighter controls and a broader understanding of the addiction risk among health care professionals), turn to heroin to feed their addiction. Opiate overdoses now kill more people every year than car accidents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just logged onto iTunes and now suddenly almost all of Prince's music is available, even his latest album from 2015. This is fantastic!

He always had his music for sale on iTunes, just not via streaming services.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no way apple can legally publish Princes music for purchase without the permission of the owner of the music. No way. And apple isn't stupid. Van Jones was saying on CNN he was positive Prince had his estate already planned in the event of his death, including the distribution of his music catalog and his funeral. Look how quickly and quietly his cremation and service took place after his death. I am sure his estate is under the control he wanted.

That might be true, but that doesn't prevent someone from contesting it.

Contest what, his will?

I heard that there was no will?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no way apple can legally publish Princes music for purchase without the permission of the owner of the music. No way. And apple isn't stupid. Van Jones was saying on CNN he was positive Prince had his estate already planned in the event of his death, including the distribution of his music catalog and his funeral. Look how quickly and quietly his cremation and service took place after his death. I am sure his estate is under the control he wanted.

That might be true, but that doesn't prevent someone from contesting it.

Contest what, his will?

I heard that there was no will?

Oh my goodness, the man has been dead for a few days, is it possible to stop making so many assumptions and passing gossip?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Combining the overdose the prior week with the blind item about AIDS, I speculate that Prince's fatal overdose is because of his weakened system, not that he was addicted to opiates per se. The doses may have been high but not fatal to someone with a healthy immune system. I think it was just a matter of time until the disease caught up with him.

Perhaps. But only addicts take dilaudid and fentanyl. And they buy it on the street or pay a doctor with no ethics for the scrips. Nobody prescribes those drugs; they're administered to addicts in the hospital under observation.

This is not true. I was prescribed Dilaudid after surgery (and it is commonly prescribed for post surgical pain). I was also prescribed Fentanyl when it turned out I was allergic to the more commonly prscribed narcotics. Fentanyl is also commonly prescribed for cancer pain. The problem is health care providers started prescribing opiates for non-acute pain and were told the addiction risk for people in actual pain was very low. Unfortunately, that turned out not to be the case, and many more people legitimately prescribed opiates for pain became addicted. Those whose prscription pain medication supply has dried up (due to tighter controls and a broader understanding of the addiction risk among health care professionals), turn to heroin to feed their addiction. Opiate overdoses now kill more people every year than car accidents.

ITA--My mother is on Fentanyl patches right now for chronic nerve pain form several back surgeries.

[Anonymous]

Media confirming he was treated for overdosing on Percocet last week, and reporting he hadn't slept in the days leading up to his death. That's classic withdrawal. He should have been treated for that. He didn't have to die.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no way apple can legally publish Princes music for purchase without the permission of the owner of the music. No way. And apple isn't stupid. Van Jones was saying on CNN he was positive Prince had his estate already planned in the event of his death, including the distribution of his music catalog and his funeral. Look how quickly and quietly his cremation and service took place after his death. I am sure his estate is under the control he wanted.

That might be true, but that doesn't prevent someone from contesting it.

Contest what, his will?

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I heard that there was no will?

No way, there was a will. His publicist said that Prince left very specific insurrections on how his remains we to be treated, the type of ceremony he was to be given, the timeline, etc., and the Pr people said they are following that, this guy was super smart. He had estate planning done. BUt if you want to play that game, that he died in testate, since he isn't married and has no children, his estate to revert to his parents and then to his sister.