Making Money in Digital Money

[Major Variola (ret)]

At 08:14 PM 5/1/03 -0400, zem wrote:
>> Why would Bob's "clients" care if the cost was low enough, or just
>> casually traded?
>
>Spam.
>
>The reason clients pay Alice or Bob to receive their approval ratings
is
>to avoid downloading bogus files - incomplete, poorly encoded,
misnamed,
>or deliberately spoofed files (cf Madonna's "what the fuck?" example).

Zem, the editor need not be a single or static entity.  Consider
slashdot,
which uses its readers as ephemeral editors.  Consider the (new)
KaZaa ratings system which does the same.  Consider ebay's user
rating system.

So yes, the editing *function* is valuable, but it needn't be
implemented
by a paid individual.


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