p2p, anonymity and security

[greg at freephile.com (Greg Rundlett)]

Travis Roy wrote:

>
> How do you know that? Perhaps he wants to share legal content but 
> doesn't want everybody and their brother knowing his IP address, name, 
> and location. Bands like Guster allow sharing of their music if it's a 
> live show that they taped. You can get tons of their shows on 
> archive.org. I host guster.net for a friend and he has many many media 
> files up that the band has no problem with.
>

This past spring, my wife and I were fortunate enough to 'discover' and 
see the Bruce Marshall Group play twice in two weekends.  (from the old 
Marshall Tucker band).  At the second show, he was hawking his latest 
CD's (one of which was obviously burned on a home computer), and I 
bought both.  I'm not about to violate his copyright by distributing his 
music, but I sure wish it were easy to find some like it on the 
Internet, so I could find out where to buy it.  You can freely download 
mp3 files from his website (brucemarshall.net).  I would hope that these 
are half songs--with an audio message indicating where to find him on 
the Internet so that you can buy them.  My point is that here is 
somebody who is sharing mp3 files on the Internet, and he is not a 
pirate.  In fact, I bet Bruce would like to know how to share his demos 
on p2p networks.  So would I.  And I'm interested in propagating that 
knowledge so that artists like Bruce can lead a new Internet 
distribution model that fits fans and artists, not the RIAA.  That's why 
I asked my original question.

In retrospect, I should have said something like "I want to use p2p 
tools with various enencumbered historical, cultural, art, software and 
music assets, encoded in royalty-free formats such as ogg" so that I 
could try to sidestep the issue of being labeled a copyright-infringing 
pirate.

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