In our ideal world, we'd be leveraging new technologies for promotion and distribution of content, no matter who the source is. Say release a small 'teaser' via Bittorrent with an option to 'buy' via a private/authenticated Bittorrent tracker or direct download. Which would cut down on the costs of releasing things like full-length motion pictures, music cds, etc, since the customer would be sharing the load, instead of the content producers having to make a massive investment in infrastructure.
If you'd like to look at some of the things we've done as a company to help the open source world (which has almost nothing to do with you guys), we've helped 2 years in a row now with Gentoo Linux distribution's Bittorrent releases of new livecds as "super seeds." We also picked up "super seeding" of the Belenix releases.
For those of you who say that we've stolen your content and are profiting from it, perhaps you should see my earlier post about searching google with filetype:torrent, since google's ads are shown with their search results, they're obviously just as "evil" as we are, and yet it's not them that's here posting telling you guys the easiest way to get shit done with torrent sites, it's me. In that same post, you should read their DMCA takedown procedure, I guarantee it's a bigger pain in the ass.
If you doubt what I've got to say about taking things down in a reasonable timeframe, ask Eric at removeyourcontent.com how long it took me to respond to his emails yesterday. I do have a new portal in the works for rights-holders, and if people from here are interested, I'll let you guys be some of the first to sign up (I'd actually like to give Eric at removeyourcontent.com first crack at it, even though i haven't told him yet).
I wear 2 hats, copyright agent and sysadmin... and i'm planning on leveraging the sysadmin portion to make the copyright agent portion as easy as possible, since I'd rather spend my time making my infrastructure better than having to deal with copyright shit, since it's a drag for me and a drag for you.
Promoting a Creative Commons licensed band called ALTered Zero
CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp) using Bittorrent to distribute DRM-free content created by them
Misc discussion on legit uses for P2P networking (Bittorrent focused) w/ links to "Steal this film" and others
More independent music being released via Bittorrent
Trent Reznor talking about a private music Bittorrent site that he released his content on being shut down. (oink.me.uk)
Comments on Radiohead's "In Rainbows" and Canadian musicians telling the music lobby not to use their names in persecuting their fans
Belinix OpenSolaris distribution using isohunt for distribution of their DVDs
Discussion on filtering torrents on behalf of Copyright holders