ask us to take that music down," says Goodman, adding that he usually gets these types of calls from automated 'bots working for the record labels or distributors.

Prince stayed on the phone with Goodman for nearly 30 minutes. Goodman tells The Frame what they discussed and how Prince impressed upon him why he was so protective of his music.

His big picture and his goal and battle he's been fighting for decades ... is stopping piracy. He truly believed that piracy could come to an end with people like him, who obviously had power and money. He told me, "Scott, we need to fight piracy. We cannot have musicians having their music stolen."

At the end of the day, if you're monetizing or hosting music that isn't copyrighted you're essentiallystealing that artist's creation. And he has a larger stake in it than the majority of artists, being that he owns his entire music catalogue. It's not owned by a music distributor. It's not owned by a record label. So he had a large financial stake in it, and at the end of the day his goal was to make copyright violations obsolete. And he truly, truly believed that was possible. And based on the call, he was just as passionate about protecting his music and other artists' music as he was about creating new music.