Until today, we've never had a feeling comparable to the surge of sadness that filled our chest when our brother told us Santa wasn't real while our Mom was in the bank. What jarring secret's exposure could similarly shatter us? Prince is a proactive jerk!
Holden Lenz, 18 months old, is the pajama-clad star of a 29-second home movie shot by his mother in the family's rural Pennsylvania kitchen and posted last February on the popular video site YouTube.
Twenty eight people, mostly friends and family, had viewed the YouTube video by June, when mom Stephanie Lenz said she received an e-mail from YouTube informing her that her video had been removed from the site at the request of Universal Music Publishing Group, the recording industry's largest label, and warning her that future copyright infringements on her part could force the Web site to cancel her account.
For it's part, Universal said it was simply acting at the behest of one of its top artists.
A well-placed source directly involved in the situation confirmed to ABC News that Prince was directly involved in seeking the takedown of Lenz's video.
"This guy scours the Internet," the source said of the legendary artist, who once changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol and wrote the word "Slave'" on his cheek until he won back the rights to his music from another publishing company.
"He's really intense about this stuff," the source said, adding that Lenz's video "happened to be one of many" that artist apparently located online and demanded be taken down.
That does it. From now on, we're only listening to Radiohead and Creedence. And maybe Morrissey. But that is it.
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"this guy scours the internet…, he's really intense about this stuff"
I'm calling Chris Hansen post haste.
prince needs to smoke some sticky-icky and chill the hell out.
but where will he get the money for sticky icky if single moms keep stealing his music??
he should have thought about that before he spent all of his money on purple crap.
It's about time someone had the balls to take down these money stealing babies. I bet that baby has a closet for of fake Louis Vuitton purses as well.
He's dancing around mocking his royal purpleness. I wouldn't have any of this either. I think Prince should sue this baby. Hopefully the fear of it will make him crap his pants and scare him straight. He'll still crap his pants but he'll also learn an important lesson.
no shit, what's with these fucking babies thinking they can get everything for free? that baby needs to get a job and pay his buck o' five to download that song.
Metallica and Prince now equally piss me off. What a shame too.
Well, I think Prince single-handedly proves Napoleon Complex is not a myth. He packs enough proof in his little sawed off 5ft 2 in. body to cancel out the entire other side of the debate. Pick on somebody your size, Slave Boy…wait he already did that. Pick on somebody your own size and your own age…like Tom Cruise.
That would be an amazing glib off.
Two crazed, egotistical, maniac midgets in a Shortman Syndrome Smackdown. The winner of the Triple S gets a free lifetime supply of Levitators.®
I have to go with, Tom. He's got the power of, Xenu.
all I got out this clip was…
Man, that poor kid who keeps running by the camera for attention. No one loves it.
:(
No he's going to expect people to follow him and take pictures everywhere he goes.
Swedish Stewardess, Do you mean that older one
who was clearly trying to get the camera's (Mom's)
attention? I saw that too!! Poor guy.
Yeah. That's the one.
Now come on…Supermassive Black Hole…Muse…those guys move me to …well…My husband loves Muse…and Peter Murphy…and so on…