On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:10:25AM -0400, Travis Bemann wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:40:28PM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote:
> > On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 07:15:11PM -0700, Mr. Bad wrote:
> > > Freenet is not about sharing music. It's about publishing. We don't,
> > > and shouldn't, have mechanisms for tipping musicians built into
> > > Freenet, just as we don't have a word processor or Egyptian barley tax
> > > calculation program built into Freenet. It's not what we're for, it's
> > > not what we do.
> >
> > However as the Freenet architecture evolves I believe it or a derivative
> > will be used as an infrastructural component of secure, anonymous digital
> > currency systems.
>
> Why do we need secure, anonymous digital currency?! Why do we need
> currency at all?!
So I can become unbelievably rich and powerful, and grudgingly
permit you to work in one of my tampon factories.
> > So consider that -- not only are we building a system that makes it
> > possible for people to get away with duplicating copyrighted music,
> > we're also making a system that might put extra money in those artists'
> > pockets they'd never have seen otherwise.
> >
> > People have been copying tapes and CDs since way before Napster. Freenet
> > may make it easier to copy music, but it will enable more efficient
> > compensation of artists in equal proportion.
>
> Look - what we need to do is to destroy the entire capitalist system,
> not to just copy copyrighted media and pay musicians anonymously.
You mean destroy the entire capitalist system, copy
_freely_redistributable_ media, and pay musicians anonymously.
--
# tavin cole
#
# "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect,
# a continual flight from wonder."
# - Albert Einstein
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