At 10:00 pm -0400 on 6/4/97, Anonymous wrote:
There is an easy solution to this problem. Just use one-time passwords. Put it in a cookie. Every time the customer accesses the service you give him a new one. He doesn't have to do anything. If he gives his password away it won't work for him any more.
And, of course, the penultimate solution to the *whole* problem is cash payment for every video feed. :-). In addition, if the government was out of the copyright/patent monopoly-granting business (for some reason ;-)), you could even re-distribute these things with recursive auctions. The person who has posession of a whole MPEG file copy then has more incentive to just resell his copy, again for cash, and probably for multiple times, than to give it away and not get even some of his money back. Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/