Prince To Cease Release Of Music Due To Internet Piracy!!

Prince tells The Guardian that he essentially plans to stop releasing music due to Internet piracy. He told the British paper, "The industry changed. We made money [online] before piracy was real crazy. Nobody's making money now except phone companies, Apple and Google. I'm supposed to go to the White House to talk about copyright protection. It's like the gold rush out there. Or a carjacking. There's no boundaries. I've been in meetings and they'll tell you, Prince, you don't understand, it's dog-eat-dog out there. So I'll just hold off on recording."

That is a hard thing for a musician's musician to say about their music. He is one of the most bootlegged artists of the modern music era, and I can see why he would be angry. Most people who are just consumers and not in the industry, don't realize that despite all of his early success as a teenage phenom, and his millions of records sold, he was operating as most artists do today, locked in an ominous one sided contract, as a slave to a major distribution company and has never reaped financially what he should have for the work he sowed into his music and artistry. A stark lesson to be learned by all young aspiring artists, to treat your music as a business first!