Prince to "reclaim the Internet" by suing

Prince is planning to make some doves cry over at YouTube headquarters. The symbol-loving singer has announced that he wants to go after the video-sharing site, along with eBay and the Pirate Bay, for hosting unauthorized versions of his music and merchandise.

This is the man who once changed his name to a symbol and currently runs an official web site (3121.com, of course) that looks to be written in a Princified version of "lolcat," telling members to "use their 4mer login and password 2 update ur in4mation."

Prince might not have much of a case, anyway. Unless courts find that the DMCA does not apply to YouTube, it continues to have a "safe harbor" that shelters it from these sorts of legal cannonballs so long as it complies with proper takedown requests. eBay, which has faced problems with counterfeit goods for years, is also used to dealing with such situations, and The Pirate Bay has so far proved impervious to attack.