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Re: Copyright commerce and the street musician protocol
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Grigg)
Wed Nov 5 22:54:49 1997
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 01:24:11 +0000
From: Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com>
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
CC: Steve Schear <steve@lvdi.net>, John Kelsey <kelsey@plnet.net>,
"Perry's Crypto List" <cryptography@c2.net>,
cypherpunks <cypherpunks@algebra.com>,
rjasonc@purple.reddesign.com.iway.nl
Robert Hettinga wrote:
>
> At 7:13 pm -0500 on 11/2/97, Steve Schear wrote:
>
> > The first somewhat serious treatment of this I saw was Hughes's DEFCON IV
> > presentation entitled, I believe, "Universal Piracy System."
>
> I'm curious about this...
>
> Did DEFCON IV happen before, or after, the rump session of FC97 (February
> 26? 1997), when Jason Cronk talked about recursive auctions on geodesic
> networks? Actually, now that I think about it, Ian Grigg did a talk about
> the sell-side inverse of the same idea in the same session...
DEFCON IV was well before FC97. This was an issue I was chasing Eric
Hughes on. As far as I understand it, this was unpublished in any form,
just presented, but many people have saw it (must have been a big
conference :-). If anyone knows any different, please let me know
(except, "get in touch with Eric" because that was not resultful).
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