The most forceful performance at last year's Grammy ceremony was a speech
by Michael Greene, then president of the National Academy of Recording Arts
and Sciences. Speaking not long after the 9/11 attacks, Greene gravely
warned of a worldwide threat -- "pervasive, out of control, and oh so
criminal" -- and implored his audience to "em-brace this life-and-death issue."
Greene was not referring to international terrorism. "The most insidious
virus in our midst," he said sternly, "is the illegal downloading of music
on the Net."
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