At 9:10 AM -0700 on 8/3/02, James A. Donald wrote:
I can only see one application for voluntary TCPA, and that is the application it was designed to perform: Make it possible run software or content which is encrypted so that it will only run on one computer for one time period.
Otherwise known as "book-entry to the eyeball", and the de-facto wet dream of WAVEoids since time-immemorial, or at least 1989 or so. It's a shame that these people haven't heard of Goedel or Heisenberg. Or Coase, for that matter. :-). Cheers, RAH Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- 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'