From: Alexander Chislenko <sasha@cs.umb.edu>
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 93 20:09:53 PST
To: extropians@extropy.org
Subject: Graynet - anon/encrypted piracy
Message-ID: <199312060405.AA27534@eris.cs.umb.edu>
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   P.O. Box may be not the safest way of collecting the money;
encrypted anonymous cash transactions would be much better;
also, one can not only advertize on the net, but provide the
service.
   Suppose I open a virtual store selling illegal/copyrighted
info - software, music, movies, porn, etc.  Pirates receive
royalties from the stuff they upload; customers, naturally,
pay.  All anonymous and encrypted and based on a network of
hard-to close (offshore?) remailers.
 
   The potential revenues from such a store seem well worth
the effort of setting it up.
 
   The question is how can they close it?

-- Sasha?