Practically paying for MP3s and then replacing government.

2000-05-12 Thread Anonymous
Recently I saw at comment on slashdot suggesting how to pay for MP3s. Suppose you know 100,000 people like a particular artist. If they all aggree to pay $1 upfront for the release of the next album then it is released. If the artist does their job - and keeps turning out good albums people

Re: Practically paying for MP3s and then replacing government.

2000-05-12 Thread David Honig
At 03:25 AM 5/12/00 -0400, Anonymous wrote: Recently I saw at comment on slashdot suggesting how to pay for MP3s. Suppose you know 100,000 people like a particular artist. If they all aggree to pay $1 upfront for the release of the next album then it is released. If the artist does their job -

Re: Baby Killers Bill of Rights

2000-05-12 Thread Tim May
At 11:02 PM -0400 5/11/00, David Honig wrote: At 06:55 PM 5/11/00 -0400, Eric Cordian wrote: Career-wise, are village burning, violating other nations' sovereignty, bombing to "send a message," and other such military antics on a par with being a doctor, lawyer, teacher, or research scientist?

Re: Practically paying for MP3s and then replacing government.

2000-05-12 Thread Tim May
At 3:25 AM -0400 5/12/00, Anonymous wrote: Recently I saw at comment on slashdot suggesting how to pay for MP3s. Suppose you know 100,000 people like a particular artist. If they all aggree to pay $1 upfront for the release of the next album then it is released. If the artist does their job -

Re: Practically paying for MP3s and then replacing government.

2000-05-12 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 12:24 PM -0400 on 5/12/00, Jim Burnes wrote: Robert Hettinga has been talking about this sort of thing for years now. Incessantly, some might add. :-). ...And, of course, the idea is at least as old as the universe itself. I stole it, freely, from Hughes, and the "silk road" bunch, ad

Fwd: NBC Nightly News 6:30 EST Saturday - UK RIP Bill piece

2000-05-12 Thread Robert Guerra
--- begin forwarded text Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 18:02:02 +0100 From: Caspar Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NBC Nightly News 6:30 EST Saturday - UK RIP Bill piece To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Ukcrypto (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There will be a short report on the UK