Liability, economic realities and self delusion in ecash developers. Or: Why not "just write ecash" (again).

Black Unicorn unicorn at schloss.li
Mon Dec 24 22:38:05 PST 2001




> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cypherpunks at lne.com [mailto:owner-cypherpunks at lne.com]On
> Behalf Of jamesd at echeque.com
> Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 10:04 PM
> To: Ryan Lackey; cypherpunks at minder.net; Black Unicorn
> Subject: Re: Liability, economic realities and self delusion in ecash
> developers. Or: Why not "just write ecash" (again).
> 
> 
>     --
> On 23 Dec 2001, at 21:39, Black Unicorn wrote:
> > While this might not directly impact the person running or
> > developing the system it certain serves to discourage users
> > of the system after a single allegation has been made.
> > Customer flight would be awfully dramatic I suspect.
> 
> You are as usual full of shit.
> 
> If this was so, ever banking haven, e-gold, and the rest,
> would be out of business.
> 
> You have remarkable confidence not only in the effectiveness
> of laws to deter those things they directly prohibit, but
> even those things that are sort of vaguely like those things
> they directly prohibit "Mr Happy Fun court will not be
> amused"
> 
> Every business continually commits numerous major illegal
> acts, and every day must do innumerable acts that would
> doubtless fail to amuse Mr Happy fun court.  So much is
> illegal that legislation has little effect even on those
> things the legislation directly prohibits.

So what's your point? 





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