Declan, you're an excellent writer, and I think we all owe you a debt of gratitude for
keeping a high profile on cypherpunk issues. How much of your stuff makes it into the
printed version of Wired?
As an anonymous poster alluded to earlier, I believe the ultimate solution is some
form of
improved, fee-based Gnutella or Freenet. I say fee-based only to keep the quality of
service up to professional standards. There are some interesting issues to work out
with
the financial interface between cyberspace and meatspace--one could easily run afoul of
racketeering laws.
Maybe ZKS will come up with something clever. Let's not let those Brands patents go to
waste...
--PH
>A followup article on the legal aspects is here:
>http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36756,00.html
>My favorite quote from an international law prof at Georgetown University:
>"I suspect we could blow them out of the water, although I wouldn't
>recommend that, and if they were in fact propagating illegal material I bet
>nobody would really care. There would be few consequences if nobody is
>interested."
>-Declan
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