The Internet can be a hostile place, with powerful companies paying handsome sums to hide negative content in Google search results or any quest for information that might hurt their bottom line. Unseen battles are waged every day to protect and destroy brands and reputations.
NPR report on an Iran based myspace/itunes site shares music by underground (and rather illegal) artists. The profiled song, I Shot You Babe, is a remix of Sonny and Cher's song, with gunshots in the background. The artist DJ Foundation, is cloaked in Banksy-esque anonymity.
A page on the Freepress.net site; quote below is from this page:
"While media technology has advanced in the 42 years since public broadcasting was created, the need has only grown for noncommercial, not-for-profit media, available free to the public with a mission to inform, educate, inspire and engage.
Public media means more than just PBS and NPR. It includes all media outlets and formats whose mission is to serve the public, not to earn a profit. This noncommercial sector aims to educate, engage and inform audiences, and it offers an alternative to the mainstream, commercial media."