Online Music Sharing And Trust Networks

So I read that the music companies are now pumping out faulty versions of popular file sharing tracks to consume people’s bandwidth. This kind of technological sabotage has a limited shelf life. The street finds its own solutions, as the cyberpunks are wont to say, and within a short space of time I expect to see a new generation of file sharing applications emerge that have the notion of trust built into them. Something like EBay’s trust system, but anonymous, and based on community “votes” for the legitimacy (or not) of checksum-verified tracks. Perhaps using public keys created exclusively for that purpose. All the required technology bits and pieces are already out there so it’s just a matter of time.