Stop stealing my music…
Throughout his time in the music industry, Prince worked with Web Sherrif to protect his music content. He also left clear instructions for this to continue after his death. As part of his continued efforts to make his music more difficult to gain access to, Web Sherrif has sent thousands of requests to Google to remove URLs linking to unauthorised copies of Prince’s music since 2014, reports Torrent Freak.
After news broke of Prince’s death on April 21st, we saw an immediate surge in downloads and streams of his music. Just four days after news broke, he reportedly sold over 2 million songs and over half a million albums.
Though with this, illegal downloads of his music also surged. Variety reported that the week directly after his death (April 21-28), a total of 230,031 users accessed Prince’s hits on file-sharing services based upon information shared by the piracy-tracking company, Excipio.
This news will have seen Prince turning in his grave…
Throughout his career in music he was an advocate for fair-pay for artists and was widely known for protecting his works. Back in 2007, he lashed out at The Pirate Bay and also announced legal action against YouTube for their abuse of safe harbour provisions of the DMCA. To say the very least, he had major issues with people stealing his music and exploiting his works.
Wonder what Prince would have to say to all these ‘fans’ stealing his music.
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