Tyler Durden wrote:
What if I block the outbound "release the money" message after I
unbundle the images. Sure, I've already committed my money, but you
can't get to it. In effect I've just ripped you off, because I have
usable product and you don't have usable money.
Well, yes, but this would be a very significant step forward from the
current situation. As t-->infinity the vast majority of non-payments are
going to be for the purpose of greed. If the payment is already 'gone',
then you need a whole different set of motives for wanting to screw
somebody even if you get nothing out of it. So in other words, you have
at least solved the payment problem "to the first order", with no 3rd
party. With fancier mechanisms I would think you can solve it to 2nd
order too.
How do you make the payment already "gone" without using a third party?
