Plan Would Use Software, Not Devices, to Fight Piracy

[R. A. Hettinga]

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At 6:16 PM +1200 4/16/03, thing wrote:
>All that will happen is 
>people will be forced into one camp or another, and Im willing to
>bet  once ppl move into the pirated camp they wont be able to get
>back, and  wont want too.

More to the point, "piracy", meaning the auctioning of *any* copy,
for bearer form internet cash using protocols everyone on these lists
know by heart, is *desirable*, and, I would claim, inevitable.

Inevitable because it's cheaper, it already is, :-), but I mean
risk-adjusted transaction cost compared to book-entry DRM markets,
and, in addition, will put more revenue in the pockets of actual
innovators of new content.

Cheers,
RAH

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