There is something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time, but have
not been able to find a legal way to execute it.

Side Note: It doesn’t have to be legal, but it must be difficult to
detect and difficult for me to get in trouble.

How many times have you heard an awesome song and gotten yourself a
copy. The song might be rare, hard to find, or pretty obscure, but you
just want to share it with your friends. Some people, like my friend
Viraj, create a blog (http://http://videorue.blogspot.com/) where they
can post a YouTube link to the song. People take time to mix a song
with some graphics and post it onto youtube. I appreciate his efforts,
but the format isn’t easy to consume. You have to be sitting at your
computer, not on your phone, and manually click to start each song.

I want to podcast my music. A legitimate podcast where I can share my
MP3′s with my friends. I bought them legally, most through Amazon MP3,
after hearing them on Pandora (also paid subscription). I don’t mind
paying for my music, but I want a good way to share it.

Things I’ve considered are:
1. Putting up a private wordpress blog with PodPress where I can
upload all of this music, share the links with my friends, and
subscribe my Android phone to download automagically from.
2. Finding a third party podcasting service where I can upload my own stuff

The first one puts me at the mercy of my ISP. I’ve been caught for
doing this before with a prior ISP and they threatened to shut my site
down and send some kind of notice to the RIAA if I refused to comply.
I complied.

The second option could be shut down at any time and may not gain any
permanence. I used to upload stuff to CafePress.com, and they took
draconian measures to keep copyrighted content off of their site: If
they suspected that you didn’t own the content you posted, they’d
delete it immediately. They weren’t even 50% correct identifying
copyrighted content, and after the third or fourth time they deleted
all of my shit, i got fed up and gave up.

Just ranting and raving. I really want to be able to share my music!

Shell just submitted a proposal to the Department of the Interior, which calls for ten new exploratory wells in the Arctic Ocean.  They claim that the operations will be completely “safe and clean”, but are in fact based on the same flawed methods that caused the oil spill in the Gulf.
While the Department of the Interior is considering Shell’s proposal they have opened up a public comment period to hear from us. But we only have 24 hours before the comment period closes so it is important that we send them in now!

One single oil spill could completely destroy this fragile ecosystem forever.

Join me in sending a comment to Secretary Salazar today to reject Shells proposal to drill in the Arctic by clicking the link below…

http://us.greenpeace.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=865&s_src=taf