In response to the new law in California requiring those sharing video
and audio data over the internet to disclose their email addresses, I am
hereby proposing an extension to the BitTorrent protocol to better
improve compliance with this requirement.

(1) A new message code will be added to the P2P protocol. The ascii
code "E" for "email" (69 decimal, 0x45 hexadecimal) will be used. A
message with no data appended will be considered a request for the data,
while a message with additional data appended will be used to transmit
the email address.

(2) No change will be made to the option bitfield to specify this
addition; the standard behavior of a client's dropping the connection in
response to an unsupported message in the P2P protocol is adequate.

(3) The default value for the email address shall be
"blow.me.ahnold@...".