Making Money in Digital Money

[Major Variola (ret)]

At 12:09 AM 5/1/03 -0400, zem wrote:
>> 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.

Who gives a rat's ass about Alice's rating?  The mass of P2P clients
will rate the content.  Its already in practice.  All one needs is the
content, the rating system will handle itself.