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Beyonce’s suing people who have no identity because she’s sick an tired of the fake Sasha Fierce merch outside of her shows. Here’s what TMZ reported:

Beyonce has filed a federal lawsuit today in New York, alleging that a pile of shady people have sold knock-off CDs and merchandise in “the vicinity” of past concerts she’s performed around the world.

Beyonce believes the piracy is bound to happen again — specifically at her upcoming concerts at Madison Square Garden on June 21 and 22 — so she’s asking the court to deem it illegal before the bootlegged booty hits the streets.

Is money really that bad for ya Bey?


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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Peninsulachick/ Peninsulachick

    She should be glad that SOMEbody still thinks she’s a cash cow..I’ve always seen her as irrelevant, personally..She sets black women so far back with her over-sexed, stripper-girl style..Why couldn’t she be sexy, as opposed to S**TTY? I cover my ears whenever I hear her screeching; made sense to me that Ms. James was pissed about her BUTCHERING her song with her trilly, over-singing self..Opera training be damned! She really isn’t the mega-talent the media has made her out to be. They push her sex kitten image on us, and laugh behind their hands about the joke she makes of black women everywhere…BTW, Michelle Obama is FAR more representative of the type of woman we should encourage our young black girls to aspire to emulate..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/GemStar2007/ GemStar2007

    she need to talk to Jiggas chinese girl (from the Girls, Girls, Girls video) cause she not only bootlegging Jay’s s**t, she bootlegging his girl s**t too now!!! LMAO. Anyway, who cares if they bootleg her s**t, I mean, nobody buys music these days anyway, she really should be happy people even care to hear her music. Stick to making videos B, all we really want is to see you do that booty dance that made you oh, so popular!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BlackMiss62/ BlackMiss62

    Whew, Peninsulachick!! You said a WHOLE mouthful, gurl! Amen to ALL that you said. I couldn’t have said it better myself! ^5!! Thank YOU!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/fiyonda/ fiyonda

    What goes up must come down.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/letsmarinate/ letsmarinate

    Quit hatin on Bey! Piracy is terrible but everyone is doing it and she will have a tough time trying to get those things stopped…Also, Beyonce has a beautiful voice. You don’t hear much about her in the media like a lot of our celeb artist that are sleeping around and acting a fool. She’s private and I like that. I will give her props anyday.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LoveMeSumYellas/ LoveMeSumYellas

    ITS A RECESSION!!! QUIT TRIPPIN BEY….is money really that tight on your end???

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Ms-Tweety-01/ Ms-Tweety-01

    I totally agree wit Peninsulachick also….If her shows and stuff weren’t so over priced then maybe more people could afford to go…but at da same time I wouldn’t pay a dime to see her at all b/c of her image as well as her better than everybody attitude. Not once have i heard about her and her MAN giving back to any community or doing anything for those in need….make a story about that b4 u start complaining bout people bootleggin yo stuff which will never stop!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/FllyDee/ FllyDee

    She is lame!!! I thk peeps like messing with her!! I would too!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JaxSunShine9/ JaxSunShine9

    Peninsulachick, girl you have said a MOUTH FULL! WOW! Not many people would stand up and be that REAL. But hey, it is what it is. I do think Beyonce is talented and beautiful but honestly she isn’t all that to me either. And before yall start tripping, nobody’s hatin on her. We are just stating our opinion.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/EclectiqueMami/ EclectiqueMami

    Come on… Bey made what $87 mill last year?…she’s not hurting @ all. No matter what she does bootlegging will never stop. She should be happy that there are people who are able and willing to attend her concerts during this recession

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/prettybowlegs06/ prettybowlegs06

    hey Bey ppl gotta eat and do what they have to do also to make a living..stop whinning and be glad SOME ppl like you and your music..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    bowlwgs shut the f**k up!
    people gotta eat but they need to get their OWN PLATE!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/slowhand64/ slowhand64

    Top five reasons stealing out somebody’s pocket is all good:
    5) Everybody does it.
    4) People gotta eat, yo
    3) The victim has plenty of money anyway
    2) The victim should be grateful someone cares enough to steal from them
    1) The victim isn’t “all that” anyway

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/official_girl02/ official_girl02

    YALL JUST NEED TO SHUT THE F**K UP WASTING F**KIN TIME WRITING THESE LONGS ASS PARAGRAPHS TALKIN S**T AND YOUR WORDS WON’T CHANGE A GOTDAMN THING AND WON’T BE HEARD ANY WHERE WITH YOUR SO CALLED SELF RIGHTEOUS WANT TO BE ASS (Peninsula) SO SAVE IT ALL AT THE END OF THE DAY SHE STILL DOING HER NO ONE F**KIN CARES ABOUT U BEING ONE LESS PERSON SHE HAS A FAN OR ANYTHING OF YOU MOTHAF**KAS WHO DON’T LIKE HER THAT MUCH CAUSE THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE WHO OUT NUMBER YOU AND LOVE HER

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/official_girl02/ official_girl02

    EXCUSE ME THATS SUPPOSE TO BE “OR ANY OF YOU MOTHAF**KAS” [CORRECTION NEAR THE END]

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mrvintage30535/ mrvintage30535

    people steal bootleg cds, hell i thought everyone downloaded at the crib now..guess some of the world aint caught up.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Pocahontas_/ Pocahontas_

    I happen to buy Cd’s rather than buying bootleg and think it’s only fair that she goes after them once and for all! It’s stealing and if the shoe were on the other foot it would also be seen as stealing from their angle.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Scurvin/ Scurvin

    Although I for one do not personally believe in theft in any form, I also happen to understand that it’s the amerikkkan way.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Maxiebaby/ Maxiebaby

    Fuk dat B. LOL I downloads anyway

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/COOL_BENTLEY/ COOL_BENTLEY

    NOW WHY IS BEY CRYING FO SOMETHING LIKE THAT ISNT SHE MARRIED TO
    JIGGA MAN(THAT HAS HALF A BILLION)
    NOW WHO IS SHE ROLLING WITH.

    JIGGA MY NIGGA

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/COOL_BENTLEY/ COOL_BENTLEY

    BEY IS BUGGING OUT OVER THE BOOT
    LICKERS(LEGGERS) DIDNT SHE HER
    WHAT HER HUBBY SAID IN
    GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS
    JIGGA MAN SAID
    ” HE HAD A CHINESS CHICK BOOTLEGGING HIS CDS ”

    YES AND THEY GOING TO KEEP ON BOOTLEGGING HER CDS N DVDS DURING HER CONCERT @ MADISON SQUARE GARDEN ON JUNE 21 & 22

    BEY CANT STOP IT OR JIGGA MAN
    (CLOSE 1 DOWN THEN 10 MORE POP UP)
    ITS ALREADY WORLD WIDE

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/COOL_BENTLEY/ COOL_BENTLEY

    R&B superstar BEYONCE is seeking a court ban to prevent street vendors from selling unofficial concert merchandise outside New York’s Madison Square Garden when she performs there this weekend.
    The Crazy In Love hitmaker has filed a federal lawsuit in the Big Apple against a group she believes is behind the illegal sales of knock-off CDs and other items in “the vicinity” of venues on her worldwide I Am… roadshow.
    She’s desperate to block the practice from happening again when she hits the stage at Madison Square Garden on Sunday (21Jun09) and Monday night (22Jun09) – and is asking a judge to forbid the street hawkers from peddling fake goods anywhere near the building.

    GUESS WHAT AND THEY GOING TO SALE IT AROUND THE CORNER FROM MADISON SQUARE GARDEN MAYBE 2 OR 6 BLOCKS

    BEY CAN BLAME IT ON THE ALCOHAL
    GREY GOOSE CAN GET HER LOOSE

    (=^_^=)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ChannelJ/ ChannelJ

    Beyonce i haven’t seen one CD of your concert, but once you’ve been to one you’ve been to all of them, stop feeling yourself and get your confidence up, you’ve been in this game 10 years and you’re only suing now? The haters must be right when they say all that money you’re supposedly making is hot air! whatever

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/COOL_BENTLEY/ COOL_BENTLEY

    BEY NEED TO STOP CRYING ABOUT THE
    BOOTLEGGERS THAT’S STEALING HER S**T SHE GO GRIP A MCSPIT EGG MUFFIN
    @MICKYDEE’S OVER A MCCOFFEE

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/KoriRayne87/ KoriRayne87

    is it me or is she lookin mad skinny in those pics it looks like her curves are gone OMG

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kountry_Mayne/ Kountry_Mayne

    tell dat woman to shut da hell up. if she wasnt rich she would be doing the same damn thing.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/kristen_mcclarin/ kristen_mcclarin

    I don’t care how much money she has. Like Tyra Banks said….”I don’t mess with another chicks money!!!” I can’t even blame her for being mad!!! I don’t even think that it is about the money. I think that it’s more about the principle. I’m not a person that supports bootlegging (but to each his own). I personally feel that if I don’t have the money to to purchase it legally so the artists can get credit for it, then I need to save up for it. I usually just get CD’s within the first two weeks that they come out so that I can get it for $10. As opposed to $15-$20. That’s about the same price as the bootleg so I don’t see the point in buying bootleg. To all of the people that buy bootleg, please don’t take offense. It’s just my personal opinion. As for her looking skinny…she’s probably going for another movie role. She had to lose 20 pounds to play Deena in Dreamgirls, and she had to gain 20 to play Etta in Cadillac Records. Beyonce has never been one to like being skinny!!! I saw her doing an interview after shooting Dreamgirls and she was saying how she had to lose 20 pounds for the role, and that she was ready to gain the weight back. So don’t worry….I’m sure she’s lost weight for a reason.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lilhottchick04/ lilhottchick04

    I think Bey needs to just chill out besides her music ain’t even worth goin to an best buy paying 15 bucks for her cd anyway… her music is only worth buying bootleg.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/stupidfatandugly/ stupidfatandugly

    come on now folks if someone was teefing from you, you’d get want a stop to it too.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kountry_Mayne/ Kountry_Mayne

    they sell dvd’s for 10 bucks , audio cd’s 2 for $5 . would i be mad about people bootleggin my music ? Naw if i had the type of money that jay-z or beyonce has i would be 100 % content with the money i receive. i would be happy with just one big payment of 10 million. but then again im not greedy like most folks. i work and i also put in volunteer work for the community from time to time without being paid. some people are just way too greedy instead of being happy with the blessings that they already have. the same people that has prolly sold your music as a bootleg is prolly the same person that has gotten you a new fan and is now buying every cd that you come out with thats in stores.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bmccrack/ bmccrack

    Is it just me or is Beyonce getting skinny, I almost didn’t recongnize her pics. She is starting to look like a younger Halle Berry.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Superbytch85/ Superbytch85

    All that money this hoe claims to have and has inherited with being married to Jay-z and she’s worried about bootleggers getting pocket change outside… B***h shut the f**k up and finish that damn tour wasting the courts time and s**t!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    im not a beyonce fan!

    with that said, time for the one thing YOU people hate most in life………..THE TRUTH!

    to those people who say it’s a recession, and ‘”people gotta eat”, i wonder how you would feel if some goons kicked in your door and held your family hostage while taking everything in the house………hey, people gotta eat right?
    and for the silly chick who said her c.d isn’t worth $15, beyonce is CURRENTLY at 2 1/5 million SOLD in the u.s ONLY and STILL on the billboard moving units EVERY week. so my question to you is, how does it feel to be in the minority?…………….LMAO

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    @SUPERBYTCH

    FORBES said that beyonce made 86 million last year ALONE.
    my question to you is, how much did you make last year?…………..LMAO

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    @SUPERBYTCH

    FORBES said that beyonce made 86 million last year ALONE.
    my question to you is, how much did you make last year?…………..LMAO

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/tinisha13/ tinisha13

    ii AGREE WiT SUPERbYTCh!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mumbles05/ mumbles05

    I agree with DAREALRECKLESS. If somebody was cheating you out of getting more money, you wouldn’t do the samething?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ms_real2008/ ms_real2008

    Who gives a s**t, i don’t! Hell, i don’t blame them, her albums is a little high when she should put more songs on it, make it worth a person’s while to buy the damn album that’s about a good 16- 17 dollars when you include tax. Her concert tickets are expensive as hell too, lower the price Beyonce/Sasha Fierce!

    Lower the price and people won’t buy the knock- off products. We’re in a recession woman!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ms_real2008/ ms_real2008

    I agree with SUPERBYTCH as well. I mean, she has money already, so why should it matter? Even if people ripped her off, she still is going to make more, so she shouldn’t be hard on money anyway. She’s married to Jay- Z anyway!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/leo09diva/ leo09diva

    MAN PPL BEEN BOOTLEGGEN HER & EVERYBODY ELSES S**T 4 YEARS & IF SHE JUST NOW SEEIN DAT DEN OBVIOUSLY IT DONT MANNER CAUSE SHE ALWAYS HAS & ALWAYS WILL B ABLE 2 GO ON THESE EXPENSIVE SHOPPING SPREES LIKE SHE DID DA OTHER DAY SHE SPENT 11,000 N MINUTES. SHE ACT LIKE SHE GOIN BROKE.. OL GREEDY AS B***H U DUMB U WIT J, & U WORRIED BOUT DIS S**T U GOOD 4 LIFE U DUMBASS

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/0VancouverHurts/ 0VancouverHurts

    shes the queen she can do whatever the f**k she wants b***hes! hate it or love it! when u get to her status then u can talk but u never will! u will still be poor lil u! muhahahahah it has nothing to do with money its about respect. u cant sell cheap cds when bee worked hard on em. im sure if someone was doing the same thang to u, you’d be hella mad. shes just doing justice!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Vertigo2001/ Vertigo2001

    LOL!! OOkay……shes not very bright….e few years back she filed a lawsuit on people impersonating her ( ookay!!) and now bootleggers. i bet when she stops being famous and nobody listens to her music anymore she’d be dying for people to bootleg her s**t lol.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/leo09diva/ leo09diva

    HOE F**K U! POOR, WHO ME? NEVA! U KISSIN & LICKIN BEYONCE ASS & SHE TAKIN YO MONEY & LAUGHIN AT PEOPLE LIKE YO DUMBASS!! ACTIN LIKE SHE WORK HARD 4REAL B***H PLEASE IF IT WASENT FOR DREAM , NEYO, & KERI HILSON IT WOULD B NO BEYONCE DEY BEEN WRITIN ALL HER S**T 4VA EVEN HER LIL SIS WRITES BEYONCE S**T, SHE SHOULD B DA REAL STAR OF DEY FAMILY. U ACT LIKE BEYONCE ACTUALLY HAS 2 SIT DOWN & COME UP WIT HER S**T NO NOT AT ALL! DA B***H WISH SHE WAS DAT TALENTED! WIT DEM SAME LOOKIN BLACK & WHITE VIDEOS SHE NEED 2 STOP WIT DAT PLAYED OUT S**T!! (OVANCOUVERHURTS) U JUST A F**KIN LESBIAN BEYONCE DONT WANT U SHE WANT YO MONEY SO STOP DRULLIN OVER HER U RAT MOUTH B***H!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/0VancouverHurts/ 0VancouverHurts

    YOU’RE JUST JEALOUS BCUZ I MET BEYONCE! :D

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/leo09diva/ leo09diva

    u prolly lookin n her window right now

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Bytchz-NV-PrttyLips/ Bytchz-NV-PrttyLips

    actuaslly leo..if u look at most of the early destiny childs songs and also her own albums she wrote most of it…when she was wit destiny child she was so young she didnt kno she shoudl get credit for it…jus sayin..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/cleansed81/ cleansed81

    MAN…I DONT GIVE A CARE ABOUT BEY CUZ FIRST OFF SHE HAD ALOT OF PPL BEHIND HER TO GET HER WERE SHE IS NOW SHE JUST HAD THE LOOK.. KELLY FAREAL HAD THE VOICE HER DAD PROMOTED HER ..TO GET THEM IN THE DOOR AND ALL THAT MILITARY STYLE CLOTHES IS WACK MY OPINION..AND HER SISTER JUST BEHIND THE SCENE I SEEN IT TIME AND TIME AGAIN LIKE I SAID THEY LIKED HER LOOK SOO..SHE GOT ON OFF OF THAT AND SHE CAN SING BUT ITS AIGHT..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Shamel_/ Shamel_

    Although I am not a Beyonce fan I have to be “FAIR” (not to mention HONEST) and admit I would do the same thing. People, think objectively…people are making a profit off of HER name, HER fame, HER career!!! She gets not a penny out of it! Furthermore, this does begin to effect her pockets or (potential) gross income because peple start to cut her out the equation and go straight to the middle man…not cool! Yeah, she has money but if she continues to remain “idle” while these bootleggers PLAGUE the streets she will have nothing. What we don’t know is that she probably watched this go on for years and NEVER said or did anything and now it is the last straw. Hell, it is a recession for celebrities too. She payin’ out money just as fast as she is bringing it in. We don’t have a copy of her bank statements so we just ASSUME she has money on top of money (although we can safely say she is good on that category). This happens to other artist as well and she is not the FIRST to sue (won’t be the last) but for some reason she is rediculed for it. We gotta think outside the box…I’d do the same thing if in her shoes!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/StarrSantiago/ StarrSantiago

    To all the hating ass broads who are slandering bey’s name and claiming she doesn’t make Black women look good..you need to look on the mirror. Because it’s jealous, hateful immature “sistas” like you who really make “black women look bad”.

    You perpetuate the stereotype that Black women hate each other and are outrageously insecure when another Black woman is clearly doing better than them.

    Beyonce is a great role model for young Black women. She has been in a committed relationship with a man that became her husband (not her “babydaddy”), never is in tabloids with coke up her nose or flashing her v****a, and she is classically beautiful (not “fat & ugly” as most people deem Black women).

    Now what are you doing that’s so special with your lives, again??

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LuvRgIRL81/ LuvRgIRL81

    PERSONALLY, I DON’T SEE WHY EVERYONE IS SO UPSET ABOUT HER SUING THESE PPL. SHE WORK JUST LIKE THE REST OF US AND NONE OF US WOULD WANT ANYONE CUTTING INTO OUR MONEY. SHE WORKED FOR IT. WHY SHE SHOULD SHE JUST LET THESE PPL COME AND TAKE MONEY FROM HER? TRUE ENOUGH SHE’S NOT BROKE BUT SHE IS ENTITLED TO GET WHAT IS RIGHTFULLY HERS. IT DOESN’T MATTER WHO WROTE WHAT AND WHO HAS MORE TALENT. I’M SURE SHE HAS PAID THOSE WRITERS AND PRODUCERS FOR WHAT EVER WORK THAT WAS DONE ON HER PAST ALBUMS. IN MY OPINION SHE’S JUST FIGHTING BACK. ITS NOT FAIR THAT SHE BEING HATED ON BECAUSE SHE IS STANDING UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT. SOUNDS LIKE EVERYBODY IS SAYING THAT SHE BEING SELFISH BUT CLEARLY SHE’S NOT. BASICALLY NONE OF THOSE BOOTLEGGERS WERE IN THAT STUDIO AND NONE OF THEM WROTE OR SANG A NOTE ON THE ALBUM SO THEREFORE THEY SHOULDN’T BE MAKING ANY PROFIT OFF OF HER WORK.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/rallen20/ rallen20

    CLEANED81 YOU NEED TO STOP. YOU ONE OF THOSE JEALOUS ASS GIRLS WHO SITTING UP HERE HATING. SHE GOT THE LOOK AND SHE CAN SING. YEAH THERE WAS PEOPLE BEHIND HER, PROMOTING HER HER “TALENT”. BEY AIN’T OUT THERE SELLING ASS, SHE SELLING MUSIC. WHEN SHE DOES A SHOW SHE PERFORMS HER ASS OFF! SHE AINT OUT THERE LIKE TRINA, WHO CAN’T HOLD A F**KING CONVERSATION WITHOUT SAYIN “UM”. YOU ARE EXACTLY THE TYPE OF FEMALE (and u better be happy i gave u that) THAT MAKES ME SICK, ALWAYS HATING. AND YES IF I WAS IN YOUR FACE I WOULD TELL YOU THIS.. SHUT THE F**K UP CLEANSED81.

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