To me, the fact that he gave one of his albums away BEFORE it's store release, free with the Daily Mail of all papers, says he doesn't know much and has a phobia about doing any research before he says anything.
Shame, if he had the internet, he could look things up on wikipedia and not look like a buttnugget.
Note this isn't about piracy and wanting to steal his back catalog, it's about being utterly ignorant of how your own industry has changed.
EDIT: having bothered to go read up on the giveaway, it seems it actually earned him a sackload of cash, and was a good marketing tool, getting 3 million of his CDs into homes that might never listen to his music.
I still think he's foolish for pretending the internet isnt there, and I haven't looked, but I imagine there's a good few hundred prince torrents floating around too.
I wonder what inspired such anti-net feelings however.
turns out he's doing all he can to avoid record companies and I guess he sees amazon and itunes as a similar evil...however, if you want to sell your music, I think you've got to step over that hump.
