Savannah used our news submit to tell us about this great story at Yahoo news. Two rappers with some differing points of view, yet they set on the same side of the fence as content creators! Both were at the Coleman hearings today in Washington and gave their thoughts on the file sharing controversy. LL cool J feels a bit ripped off while Chuck D. has got a slogan that would make one heck of a cool T-shirt. He says to him, P2P means "Power to the People".
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"My question is, if a contractor builds a building, should people be allowed to move into the building for free?" the rapper, dressed in a black suit with an earring glistening in his right lobe, asked senators. "That's how I feel if I record a song or make a movie, and it zooms around the world for free." Another rapper, Chuck D, founder of Public Enemy, testified at the Senate Governmental Affairs subcommittee hearing that people ought to be able to distribute the songs they want to hear on peer-to-peer Internet services, known as P2P. "P2P to me means power to the people," said Chuck D. "I trust the consumer more than I trust the people at the helm of these (record) companies." "LL's a staunch American," Chuck D added in a brief interview. "He's my man and all, man, but when you solely have an American state of mind, you're increasingly becoming a smaller part of the world." |
The article goes on to give some more details of what is going on at the hearings. With some bits of the testimony including comments by Lorraine Sullivan the student that is to represent the file sharing community that was one of the 261 sued.
In an interesting stat near the end of the story, it says: "In a Gallup Poll released Tuesday, 83 percent of teenagers polled said it was morally acceptable to download music from the Internet for free."
Source: news.yahoo.com
