Making Money in Digital Money
Sunder
sunder at sunder.net
Thu May 1 07:05:22 PDT 2003
Why would Bob be unable to strip off all signatures, process the sound
file to whiten off any watermarking and re-sell it without authentication
signatures under another nym with it's own reputation?
What would stop Bob from turning the sound file into a plain .ogg or .mp3
with no signatures and reselling millions of copies for 1/1000th the cost,
or even for free. Or have Bob be the front of a pool of purchasers who
couldn't pay Alice her fees on their own, so they each chip in 1/100th of
the cost?
Why would Bob's "clients" care if the cost was low enough, or just
casually traded?
Perhaps using music as a model isn't so wise.
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, zem wrote:
> Alice the music critic buys copies of new content at relatively high
> prices from the creator, or close sources. When Bob requests a copy of
> a particular file, Alice encrypts it to Bob's public key and signs the
> encrypted copy, selling him this 'reviewed' copy for reproduction cost +
> profit. Bob can verify he's received a good copy, but he can't
> redistribute Alice's reviewed version without revealing his secret key.
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