From Rodney Perkins Sent Sun, Dec 6th 1998, 16:38
From Rodney Perkins Sent Sun, Dec 6th 1998, 16:38
New York Times, 12/4/98 PE have been putting MP3s of unreleased material on their site, much to the chagrin of Dej Jam. Here is a brief excerpt: Two weeks ago, Public Enemy began offering free downloads of several songs from an unreleased album of remixed hits, "Bring the Noise 2000," in the MP3 file format, which allows high-quality sound to be squeezed into a small file. The group said it planned to release all of the album's tracks on the site over time. Chuck D said the release of the songs was meant to protest the "bureaucracy" in the record industry that eats into artist profits. He said it was not specifically a response to disagreements with Def Jam, which owns the rights to the songs. But in a strongly worded statement on the Web site, he lashed out at the company and the industry. "It seems like the weasels have stepped into the fire," he wrote. "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..." If you want to read the whole thing, go to: http://search.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastweb?getdoc+site+site+51531+0+ wAAA+public%7Eenemy You need to register (free) but I can also e-mail the article to you if you ask.