Of course. You get what you pay for and is there really any real point of relevance in asking?
Jason On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:03 PM, T Biehn <[email protected]> wrote: > While I can never hope to live up to Jim Bell's seminal work 'assassination > politics' the following is a rough draft of something that follows the same > vein. > A theme, which many of you undoubtedly will recognize from the current TPB > cout proceedings, of making money indirectly by taking advantage of safe > harbor laws by creating services that are very tempting to criminal > activity. > Of course the most notable example would be YouTube, which nobody will deny > made it's popularity off of user contributed copyrighted works, which > provided the catalyst userbase that allows it to persist in such popularity > today. > Other video sharing sites that have cropped up more or less cater exactly > to the posters of copyright content, such as the supernova offerings. > > This trend of 'turning around' DMCA's Safe Harbor on the legislators that > drafted and passed it is a practice I lamely call 'Chaos Engineering' or > engineering a service in such a way as to instigate criminal activity, > protect and propagate that activity, whilst profiting from it as a service > entirely legally. > > One could imagine, and those familiar with the VoIP criminal underground > would agree, a VoIP marketplace that allowed anyone to provide a terminating > route with a bid. Such a service would intelligently route to the > lowest-priced available termination point. To make this service tempt the > underworld you allow 'anonymous' (e-gold anonymous) signups, and payout in > any of the currently popular e-monies systems, pecunix, liberty reserve, > WebMoney, include bank wires, cheques etc. > To further (and would perhaps be overkill here) promote to the underground > you offer an affiliate program then launch your own programs (under false > credentials of course) to promote the site directly to the various > 'Phreaking' communities. > Naturally the termination points that were attained via some amount of > "coercive or illicit business practice" would be the lowest priced so that > their routes would be selected. > The service makes its profit by charging the average rate weighted by > individual server availability... a price higher than the lowest priced > services but still lower than the major VoIP providers. > > Yeah so how would you all respond to such a situation? Jump on the money > train or what. > > Great, > > -Travis > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ >
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