-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 6:16 PM +1200 4/16/03, thing wrote:
All that will happen is people will be forced into one camp or another, and Im willing to bet once ppl move into the pirated camp they wont be able to get back, and wont want too.
More to the point, "piracy", meaning the auctioning of *any* copy, for bearer form internet cash using protocols everyone on these lists know by heart, is *desirable*, and, I would claim, inevitable. Inevitable because it's cheaper, it already is, :-), but I mean risk-adjusted transaction cost compared to book-entry DRM markets, and, in addition, will put more revenue in the pockets of actual innovators of new content. Cheers, RAH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 - not licensed for commercial use: www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBPp2YisPxH8jf3ohaEQL8oQCeOYrp2aMX4G9Zg6hlt+xiEz/D23sAoKga nnmcEWKBdsw0alwGy5oKgXaB =QgJH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'