Sinister: semi-off-topic: MP3s

[Mark Kolmar]

I think you will see the relevance.  In case you think it is all one, big
happy, fuzzy, cuddlefest in the music business.

Public Enemy had put up MP3 of at least one previously-unreleased track.
Then:

"12.02.98

                 BTN 2000 UPDATE

It seems like the weasels have stepped into the fire....

Today Polygram/Universal or whatever the fuck they're now called forced us
to remove the mp3 version of Bring The Noise 2000. 

The execs, lawyers and accountants who lately have made most of the money
in the music biz, are now running scared from the technology that evens
out the creative field and makes artists harder to pimp. 

Let em all die... Im glad to be a contributor to the bomb... 

                   "Caaan yoooooou dig it!?" 
                   -Cyrus (Warriors)

                   CHUCK D"

from http://www.public-enemy.com/audiovideo/btn.html

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