Re: Copyright commerce and the street musician protocol

[Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com>]

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  As far as I understand it, this was unpublished in any form,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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