From: Joe Thomas <jthomas@pawpaw.mitre.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 93 12:09:13 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Start up costs and paying for speech...
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On cypherpunks, Peter Wayner <pcw@access.digex.net> writes:

> Each month, the
> smartest and wittiest would be taxed and their
> success redistributed to the new and the
> epistolarily challenged.
> 

> Ack... I don't know if digital money is such a
> great idea. A worl d without it seems so free.

I wouldn't worry about either.  I don't see how enforcement of  
copyright will be possible under crypto-anarchy any more than  
taxation will be.  If one person pays for a posting, what's to keep  
him from sharing it anonymously with whomever he wants?  Is there any  
way that crypto-anarcy won't bring the death of "intellectual  
property"?

Joe