From: eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Date: Fri Aug 04 2000 - 14:51:44 PDT
From: david mankins <dm@bbn.com>
For the two of you who can live withtout a weekly NTKnow fix:
>> TRACKING <<
sufficiently advanced technology : the gathering
Remember back in November, when we reviewed NAPSTER and said
it was going to *really* annoy the music industry? Well, the
alpha of MOJO NATION is now out, and while we're not sure
that it's going to have the same uptake as the Nap, if it
does it'll piss off the music industry *and* every
revenue-gathering government in the world. Currently an
endearing mess of Python scripts and hardcore protocol
specification, Mojo Nation uses machine resources as a
anonymous micropayment currency to fund file storage, search
engines and firewall proxies on a massively distributed
network of machines. The idea here isn't to charge for MP3s
(as some have intimated), but to charge for the cost of
maintaining a file-sharing network, using an internal
currency which you can top up just by offering those
services yourself. The Mojo Nation creators, Evil Geniuses
for A Better Tomorrow, promise to offer a real money->mojo
tokens exchange for those too wimpy to pay in cycles: but
what's rather more interesting is keeping all your accounts
in pure, untrackable Mojo's, and then widening the economy
to cover a whole range of other services. Oh, The Man is
going to *love* this.
http://www.mojonation.net/
- LGPLed too, and launched at DefCon. This is so
anarcho-PC, it hurts.
http://www.ntk.net/index.cgi?b=archive99/now1112.txt&line=137#l
- in accordance with prophecy
small print:
(K) 2000 Special Projects.
Copying is fine, but include URL: http://www.ntk.net/
- david mankins (dm@bbn.com, dm@world.std.com)
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