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To: Ram Seetharaman who wrote (3875)	12/5/1998 4:32:00 PM
From: MJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4679

The New York Times covers a lively move from the world of music with regards to MP3 and, tangentially, Diamond's Rio. The rap group Public Enemy posted some of their unreleased work on the Web. Their record label promptly demanded that they remove the tunes, which Public Enemy did. Public Enemy's Chuck D. had this to say about the events: "It seems like the weasels have stepped into the fire.... 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...I'm glad to be a contributor to the bomb..." Full article at: www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/12/cyber/articles/04enemy.html