[53317] in Cypherpunks
Re: So, what crypto legislation (if any) is necessary?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim bell)
Sat Apr 6 01:18:24 1996
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 21:18:09 -0800
To: sameer@c2.org, unicorn@schloss.li (Black Unicorn)
From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Cc: sameer@c2.org, cypherpunks@toad.com
At 12:37 PM 4/5/96 -0800, sameer@c2.org wrote:
>> Where I differ with Mr. Bell is that he seems to think the ISPs of the
>> world are going to rise and unite to quash the oppressive hand of big
>> government at their own expense in order to satisify some sense of
>> personal ethics or customer goodwill.
>>
>
> I urge Mr. Bell to start a business of his own with that
>model, and see how much fun he has. (Or, worded differently, how long
>it takes for him to go bankrupt. Perhaps we can setup betting
>pools. That could be fun.)
By now, you've probably seen my comment to Unicorn, that ISP's could easily
pool their resources, in a form of insurance, to guarantee that any test
case will be fully litigated to ensure that a bad precedent isn't set. What
if it cost a million dollars? That's only about 5 cents per American
Internet user.
You were saying about "going bankrupt"?
Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com
