[51591] in Cypherpunks
Re: Jump Start ecash With IPhone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Duncan Frissell)
Thu Mar 7 09:38:19 1996
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 09:34:11 -0500
To: mccoy@communities.com (Jim McCoy), cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
At 09:49 PM 3/6/96 -0800, Jim McCoy wrote:
>Just because LD is "deregulated" does not mean that it is without any
>governmental oversight, much as I wish it were... LD companies still
>have to pay certain taxes (take a look at your next phone bill, they are
>clearly listed in addition to your actual phone charges) and I am certain
>that they have entire office buildings stuffed with drones filling out
>paperwork for Uncle Sam...
>
>jim
>
Granted. Of course it is quite a jump to claim that a software program is a
"Long Distance Carrier." If I run Winsock on my machine and a Winsock
application like Iphone, if anyone is the LD carrier, *I* am because I am
digitizing my voice and doing the first part of the switching necessary to
send the packets on their way. Maybe the FCC should bust *me* for
practicing telecommunications without a license. It would make for an
interesting case.
DCF
