Prince, whose death on Thursday at age 57 stunned the music world, had a notoriously strained relationship with the internet in his later years. Most fans will remember one particular comment, made during a 2010 Daily Mirror interview: “The internet’s completely over.” During that same interview, Prince also declared that “all these computers and digital gadgets are no good.” His royal badness certainly did his best to keep his music off iTunes and Spotify. But, in an editorial for The Daily Dot titled “Prince’s Complicated Relationship With The Internet,” Gillian Branstetter suggests that Prince’s well-publicized aversion to the net was less about being a Luddite and more about exercising control over his music and career. “I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else,” the musician once said. “They won’t pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can’t get it.” Instead, like Taylor Swift, Prince opted for Tidal, the streaming service founded by Jay Z. The idea, Branstetter says, was not to keep his music away from fans but to control how it gets to them and who profits from it.