Comments on MicroPayments and the Web

[Mark M.]

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On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Hal wrote:

> Where does the money come from to run this proxy?
> 
> Consider two sites, one which acts as a proxy and cache but which
> charges something under a penny per page, and another which acts for
> free.  Won't the for-pay site be able to afford a larger disk, more
> servers, and better net connections?  It will be a superior service.
> 
> Micropayments will allow new services and improved quality over what we
> have today where we have to rely on charity and advertising as
> motivations for much of what we find on the web.

Who says that such a proxy needs to be run on a different machine?  For UNIX
users with a SLIP/PPP connection, it is trivial to run a web proxy that could
be pointed to by web browser.  I believe that this is also possible for Mac
and Windoze users.  The point of the proxy is not to keep the user's username
or hostname anonymous, so it does not necessarily need to run on a seperate
host.

- -- Mark

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