Potlatch - the gift economy."Right now we're just trying to describe
an economic system in which creators don't have
to sell their chldren to survive. Because of the
nature and the popularity of P2P 'viral
distribution' networks, we don't think that
payment for cultural products can be enforced -
hence the emphasis on gifts and voluntary
payments. We do think that payment, or
reciprocity, can be facillitated and encouraged in
various ways. To this end we hope to introduce an
intuitive, reliable, and reasonably secure
peer-to-peer payment system. Design goals: easy
to set up; easy to use; impossible to control."
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- jim 5-03-2001 5:11 pm