Re: Remailer ideas (Was: Re: Latency vs. Reordering)
Jim Dixon writes:
Commercial remailers would probably be very concerned with legal issues, both criminal (pornography, etc) and non-criminal (copyright violations).
Those commercial remailers probably will be located around the world, so pornography could be send by using an "offshore" [=non-american] remailer as last link in the chain. The jurisdiction where this remailer could be located, preferably shouldn't care about pornografy. [Holland, Scandinavia ?]
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Jim Dixon
Those commercial remailers probably will be located around the world, so pornography could be send by using an "offshore" [=non-american] remailer as last link in the chain. One assumption here is that someone in one country can easily pay someone in another country, and an automatic currency conversion can take place. The prerequisites to happen generally for that are the electronification of retail money in both jurisdictions and a retail-level currency exchange system. None of this really exists yet, although the first beginnings are here. Also, for anonymous payment for such overseas services, anonymous transfer in at least one of the two currencies is necessary. I point all this out to show that we're a long way from here to there. The jurisdiction where this remailer could be located, preferably shouldn't care about pornografy. [Holland, Scandinavia ?] Yes, that's the right attitude. The mantra is "regulatory arbitrage", or, always find a place to do something where it's already legal. And it's not just the USA. Expect Britain's libel system to be stretched by anonymous overseas speech. Eric
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