Sep.05.2005 :: Scooter Scudieri, the DCIA and P2P Users to Help Hurricane Katrina Victims

Link to "THIS TOO WILL PASS": (copy and paste in browser)

http://www.offthepeer.com/Shared/Scooter_Scudieri-This_too_will_pass-OTP.wma

Arlington, VA September 4, 2005 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 the Internet's First Rock Star" 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 a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award winning writer and 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. Utilizing high tech and high intensity, Scooter is reinventing the 'rock star' and redefining independent by working without an agent, manager, or record company.

American Red Cross volunteers have been deployed to the hardest hit areas of Katrina's destruction, supplying hundreds of thousands of victims left homeless with critical necessities. Proceeds from the P2P fund-raiser will be contributed to the Red Cross' Hurricane 2005 Relief fund to help provide shelter, food, counseling, and other assistance to those in need.

Hurricane Katrina, which devastated parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, is inspiring traditional and digital media to respond with fund-raisers. As the newest online distribution channel, we felt we should also take responsibility to help victims, said DCIA CEO Marty Lafferty in announcing the launch of this program.

"I use my music as a message of peace and the Internet as a means to connect us all. I wrote 'THIS TOO WILL PASS' early in the summer of 2005 coming out of a personal tragedy. Music has healing power. When I saw the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, I knew something positive could result from releasing the song's energy," noted Scooter Scudieri on his decision to record this new track on September 1st, 2005 to help hurricane victims.

INTENT CEO Les Ottolenghi added, "In the coming days and weeks, other DCIA Members and industry participants will join us in contributing additional content to this program, and we expect a strong response from P2P users who want to do their parts."

"P2P is an emerging commercial force and we're very pleased to see it put to use to help those in urgent need," Shared Media Licensing President John Beezer concluded.

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