This is beautiful. A few months ago I posted on the tech report about how I thought ultimately the RIAA’s tactics would be overcome with better software from the p2p software community – ie that their tactics, rather than reducing piracy, would simply encourage another round of innovation in the software that would make for enhanced security. That day has come. Or at least MUTE is the first example of a software package that solves this problem. Want to share your huge pop music mp3 archive? You can again do so with a relatively high degree of security and anonymity. Check out the link for details, there are actually some good diagrams and a lengthy explanation of the hows and whys. I can’t wait for this sort of technology to make its way out into the other p2p apps, particularly bit torrent and DC++.

Oh, and, um, hello, RIAA? Once again, you reap the harvest you sow.