Re: Copyright commerce and the street musician protocol

[Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>]

At 5:20 PM -0500 11/5/1997, 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...

Eric's came first.  It was in July 1996.

--Steve