The Distributed Computing Industry Association (www.DCIA.info), a trade organization with fifty-six Members representing peer-to-peer (P2P) software providers, content rights holders, and service-and-support companies, will offer P2P users, estimated to number more than 10 million in the US, a way to help victims of Hurricane Katrina by buying and sharing music with others.
The program kick-offs this weekend with the new original song, “This Too Will Pass,” written and performed by Scooter Scudieri (www.firstrockstar.com), distributed via major open P2P software programs – such as BearShare, eDonkey, Grokster, Kazaa, and TrustyFiles – by INTENT MediaWorks (www.intentmediaworks.com).
P2P Users will be able to preview the song for free, then download and purchase it for eighty-nine cents ($0.89). Of proceeds from each sale, eighty cents ($0.80) will go to the American National Red Cross (www.redcross.org) to help support victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The music track will be secured using the Weed technology of Shared Media Licensing (www.weedshare.com).
Scooter Scudieri is the ‘most-searched-for’ independent artist on P2P, logging over 50 million searches to date. His current music video, “Mother Of God,” has been downloaded more than 200,000 times.
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