http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainmen ... 154316.stm"Rapper LL Cool J has said he supports the US music industry's legal threats to illegal music downloaders. The star was speaking to a Senate committee investigating whether the industry has been too heavy-handed.
"My question is, if a contractor builds a building, should people be allowed to move into the building for free?" he told senators.
But fellow rapper Chuck D, of Public Enemy, said people should be allowed to swap songs on peer-to-peer sites. Peer-to-peer services, or P2P, allow people to share songs between them over the internet.
"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."
The rap star later added: "LL's a staunch American...but when you solely have an American state of mind, you're increasingly becoming a smaller part of the world."
from the bbc website