-----Original Message----- From: owner-cypherpunks@lne.com [mailto:owner-cypherpunks@lne.com]On Behalf Of jamesd@echeque.com Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 10:04 PM To: Ryan Lackey; cypherpunks@minder.net; Black Unicorn Subject: Re: Liability, economic realities and self delusion in ecash developers. Or: Why not "just write ecash" (again).
-- On 23 Dec 2001, at 21:39, Black Unicorn wrote:
While this might not directly impact the person running or developing the system it certain serves to discourage users of the system after a single allegation has been made. Customer flight would be awfully dramatic I suspect.
You are as usual full of shit.
If this was so, ever banking haven, e-gold, and the rest, would be out of business.
You have remarkable confidence not only in the effectiveness of laws to deter those things they directly prohibit, but even those things that are sort of vaguely like those things they directly prohibit "Mr Happy Fun court will not be amused"
Every business continually commits numerous major illegal acts, and every day must do innumerable acts that would doubtless fail to amuse Mr Happy fun court. So much is illegal that legislation has little effect even on those things the legislation directly prohibits.
So what's your point?