When Prince was alive, he was a fierce opponent of having his music distributed online. “The internet was over for anyone who wants to get paid, and I was right about that,” Prince told The Guardian in 2010. “Tell me a musician who’s got rich off digital sales. Apple’s doing pretty good though, right?” In fact, Prince banned his work from appearing on Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, YouTube, Deezer, and even bankrupted platforms like Rdio. Which, inevitably, has led to an explosion of pirated copies of his songs appearing on sites like TorrentFreak. Within 24 hours of Prince’s death being announced, the…
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