This is a time where we have to respect what Prince wanted. We all know that there's alot of people among his "fans" that would do anything to get his stuff on youtube, spotify, physical releases etc. One way of paying respect to Prince, is to accept what he wants to do with what he owned. Youtube and google get even richer out of his death when people are uploading stuff uncritically. Google has too much power. Viral videos are big money for that corporation. I'm not saying we should not enjoy what's out there. But we can atleast understand him for his private reasons. It's not like he owed us anything. It's our choice to be the fans that we are. He just provides the music as he pleases. To me Prince is still alive. I want him to be proud of his followers. We need to atleast pay some respect to both him and everyone close to him.

In 2015 http://fortune.com/2015/0...gle-value/

Viral videos are big money An analyst at Bank of America thinks your favorite place for cat videos is worth big money.

Analyst Justin Post wrote a note this week saying that YouTube, the popular video streaming site bought by Google in 2006, is worth about $70 billion on its own. That’s a higher value than all but 66 of the companies listed on the S&P 500, according to Bloomberg. Post also thinks that YouTube could still grow, with a valuation of up to $90 billion possible—which would leave only 55 S&P 500 companies beating it. The 2006 deal was for $1.65 billion.