Really they are? If Joe P2P User wants to hear a Metallica song, does he really give a shit who signed it and said it was authentic? Is it the signature or the song what he's after? Go find some P2P users and ask them. ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :NSA got $20Bil/year |Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :and didn't stop 9-11|share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:Instead of rewarding|monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :their failures, we |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :should get refunds! |site, and you must change them very often. --------_sunder_@_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------ On Thu, 1 May 2003, zem wrote:

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So Bob either redistributes the decrypted bits, or cruises through the analog hole. Game over. All your Valentis are belong to us.

Point is Bob can't redistribute the file with Alice's approval rating still intact. And it's the approval rating that people are paying her for, not the content. Bob can't redistribute the profitable part, only the worthless part.