Re: Password pirates plunder XXX sites, from The Netly News

[Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>]

At 10:00 pm -0400 on 6/4/97, Anonymous wrote:

> There is an easy solution to this problem.  Just use one-time passwords.
> Put it in a cookie.  Every time the customer accesses the service you give
> him a new one.  He doesn't have to do anything.  If he gives his password
> away it won't work for him any more.

And, of course, the penultimate solution to the *whole* problem is cash
payment for every video feed. :-).

In addition, if the government was out of the copyright/patent
monopoly-granting business (for some reason ;-)), you could even
re-distribute these things with recursive auctions. The person who has
posession of a whole MPEG file copy then has more incentive to just resell
his copy, again for cash, and probably for multiple times, than to give it
away and not get even some of his money back.

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga

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