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Rap group Public Enemy is known for speaking out – especially band member Chuck D. The group is famous for radical lyrics in songs like 'Fight the Power' and '911 Is a Joke.' When it comes to the controversy surrounding the distribution of audio on the Internet, Chuck D is true to form. 'As far as the industry [goes], fuck 'em all,' he said. 'Now they're all fucking scared. The means of distributing the fucking product [is] in anyone's hands.'

Public Enemy runs an extensive Web site, with audio files of their music, video clips, message boards, photos, and song lyrics. In the past three weeks the band posted portions of a longer remix for free download in the MP3 format, according to Chuck D. They planned to release one sample a week from an unreleased 27-minute remix of old Public Enemy songs called Bring the Noise 2000. 'We were looking for [PolyGram] to shut us down anyway,' he said.

'This industry is one-sided and Public Enemy has always been one to make a statement.' The brouhaha between Public Enemy and PolyGram is part of a larger issue in the distribution of music online. Most music industry players see promoting and selling music online as inevitable. But just how to do that is the controversy. The music industry is fighting against the MP3 audio format, which compresses audio files for easier transmission over the Internet. MP3 delivers CD-quality sound, but it drives the Recording Industry Association of America nuts that users can distribute songs without paying royalties. Gary G-Wiz admitted that, legally, PolyGram has the right to make the band remove the songs from its Web site.

Public Enemy doesn't own the rights to the songs, Gary G-Wiz said. 'We weren't selling them – they were just there [on the site] for promotional purposes. But it's their call. They can make us take them down.' Public Enemy would like to offer more audio samples, but it remains to be seen whether PolyGram will allow it, he said.

A proponent of MP3 argued that the format is good for reaching the huge audience of MP3 users on the Internet. 'Band members think it's a great idea, but you have a real reluctance at the record-label level [to use the format],' said Michael Robertson, president of Z Company, which operates the MP3.com Web site. Scph10000bin rom1bin download. 'They don't understand that's where their users are.' Steve Grady, spokesman for GoodNoise, an online record label, says MP3 is a vehicle for sales. And, he said, MP3 is not solely a format for free downloads. On the Public Enemy Web site, a of protest from Chuck D is all that remains of the MP3 recordings. 'Polygram/Universal or whatever the fuck they're now called forced us to remove the MP3 version of Bring The Noise 2000,' said Chuck D.

'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.'