From: eggplant@inlink.com (eggplant)
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 10:45:35 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Jump Start ecash With IPhone
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>
>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

So is telecommunications defined as voice transmision? Couldn't Cu-Seeme be
defined as telecommunications also? Or how about the transmission of
digital data in general since that's one place where telecom companies are
investing.


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Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me-and by that time no one was left to
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