Comments on: Prince Professes Cluelessness; Declares Internet ‘Dead’

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:59:45 +0000

Remember when he used to be sane ? .. Ya, neither do I..

By: Lillie

Lillie — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:44:02 +0000

yes rima myspace has got to be jersey shore

By: WildWestDave

WildWestDave — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:30:01 +0000

Gadgets are bad because they fill your head with math? Yikes.

You are right, however. The Artist Formerly Known As A Symbol is a loon, but he’s not wrong about piracy.

I wonder how pirates would feel if I stole their work.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:56:58 +0000

My head is mostly full of the number 7.

By: Rima

Rima — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:54:03 +0000

I can’t argue with you there!

Prince’s ideas of the internet might be a bit…er… off, so to speak, but he’s not a bad guy or even just a curmudgeon. He’s all for giving away his music, but on his own terms only. I have a lot of respect for that.

Still, we have to be realistic. While piracy might be wrong (and ethically, I agree that it is), there’s not much out there that can prevent it, short of never releasing the music to the public to begin with. It seems that every time a company’s star programmers come up with a new way to protect data, some kid with a healthy curiosity manages to break through the coding.

By: aarcus21

aarcus21 — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:34:50 +0000

Not that those teens should have the advantage though. Pro-information is one thing. Pro-stealing artwork is another.

And I’d reverse the two: MySpace was first

By: Rima

Rima — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:45:11 +0000

Does that then make the trashier, still lingering MySpace “Jersey Shore”?

By: Jeremy Kitchen

Jeremy Kitchen — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:44:01 +0000

If the internet is MTV, does that make Facebook the realworld?