A SHORT GUIDE TO GIVING AWAY CDs WITH FREE MUSIC,
 FOLLOWED BY A FREEDOM FIGHTING POLITICAL HAND-OUT TO GIVE AWAY WITH THE CD AS TO TEACH PEOPLE ABOUT CREATIVE COMMONS, AND THAT WHAT YOU’RE DOING REALLY ISN’T “ILLEGAL FILE SHARING”.
  This entire document was released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License by Nathan E. Ross on 4/24/06. I’d actually prefer when handing out the corresponding informative on Creative Commons printout, you add to the byline on “Written by Nate Ross,” putting after it “ brought to you by (whoever you people are).” Just cause, hey, you do deserve some cred for handing this stuff out. It takes guts to make a difference.
	You can give away print-outs of the document included when giving away CDs of creative commons and freely redistributable music. Just call it a pamphlet, “literature”, or “propaganda” (as a joke) and give it out to people as you give out CDs. Trust me. I’ve tried this. People take the CDs and the pamphlets. People are interested. People like the idea of free music. But some precautionary notes on giving CDs of freely distributable music out:
 <--1--> “Can I play this on a CD player?” Make sure when you distribute the CDs to specify whether it can be played on CD player or has to be put on a computer. Either in this article or on the CD or on another handout. That’s a mistake I made, and I got a few complaints from people that “the CD had nothing on it, I tried it on my CD player and it didn’t work.” 
<--2--> “What’s on the CD?” Another thing, you might also want to give away papers which have what music is on the CD, or at least know by heart some of the genres and artists you put on there so you can recite them when people ask. The best answer is “all kinds, check it out.”  
<--3-->  “Can I have a pamphlet?” “Is this illegal?” When copying the pamphlet below at a copy machine, it’s better to make double-sided copies of the first two pages. People are a lot more willing to take and read what looks like a two page info sheet than what looks like three pages. Remember to emphasize the legally redistributable nature of the music to people who aren’t given or interested in the pamphlets. This music is free to give away! Give a copy to your grandpa, your friend, whatever - This music is legal to share!
<--4--> “Is there a virus on this?” If someone asks you if there’s a virus on the CD or something, appeal to their common sense: “Why would I give away hundreds of CDs of viruses? Do I look like I want to go to jail for property destruction?”  “I mean, considering like a lot of people we’re giving this away to know who we are, we’d be in pretty deep shit if we put a virus on here, right? So it’s like, why would we put one on here, anyway?” and you could also just emphasize you’re here to do good, not spread viruses orsomething like that.  
<--5--> “Why are you giving music out?” Inevitably, you may encounter someone who asks why are you doing this. Good, accurate answers – “We’re trying to send a message that you don’t have to support a corrupt record industry to listen to music” “We’re trying to show to people that music can be free.” “People love to get free stuff, and people love to listen to music,  and we want people to do what they love. So we’re giving away free music” “Well, everyone likes music, don’t they? So do we. That’s why we want everyone to have music.” Be creative. Come up with stuff.
<--6--> One final note: If you’re worried that people won’t go along with it, let me give you some tips:  everyone loves free stuff, everyone loves music. Just go around, bring a friend for confidence and ease of operation. “Hey, Man, you want some free music?” “Hey, newspapers are cool. But you know what’s also cool? Free music!” “Hey guys, check it out, we’re giving out free music.” 
Oh yeah, and have fun. Pulling a crazy stunt like this is fun as hell.