Unfortunately the first two things which come to mind are: coffee (a drug - actually an excuse for gathering) papers on public key cryptography (primary information) radios - illegel in Russia and I believe elsewhere during WWII East German typewriters - I had one Also a slight deviation: many medicines (and soon herbal contraptions) which are doctor monoply items here, but over the counter in most other countries. Religious artifacts of any number of banned religions. Divorce (opps, not a physical object). Really on thinking about it, I believe that the trade of ideas is always far more repressed than the trade in any kind of stuff. --Efrem Re:
We want to develop a list of game items, physical objects, which will be the goods of transaction. I would like to pick objects that have been illegal in the past, but which are not anymore. They should not be primarily information, such as copies of _Ulysses_. They should not now be restricted. Nor should they be weapons
--Efrem > We want to develop a list of game items, physical objects, which will > be the goods of transaction. I would like to pick objects that have > been illegal in the past, but which are not anymore. They should not > be primarily information, such as copies of _Ulysses_. They should > not now be restricted. Nor should they be weapons We definitely should have physical goods because the interface between an information world (in which privacy and anonymity can be completely protected) is where much of the complexity lies in managing things like cryptographic money. dean
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