Re: So, what crypto legislation (if any) is necessary?

At 12:37 PM 4/5/96 -0800, sameer@c2.org wrote:
>> Where I differ with Mr. Bell is that he seems to think the ISPs of the 
>> world are going to rise and unite to quash the oppressive hand of big 
>> government at their own expense in order to satisify some sense of 
>> personal ethics or customer goodwill.
>> 
>
>	I urge Mr. Bell to start a business of his own with that
>model, and see how much fun he has. (Or, worded differently, how long
>it takes for him to go bankrupt. Perhaps we can setup betting
>pools. That could be fun.)

By now, you've probably seen my comment to Unicorn, that ISP's could easily 
pool their resources, in a form of insurance, to guarantee that any test 
case will be fully litigated to ensure that a bad precedent isn't set.  What 
if it cost a million dollars?  That's only about 5 cents per American 
Internet user.

You were saying about "going bankrupt"?

Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com

> 
> By now, you've probably seen my comment to Unicorn, that ISP's could easily 
> pool their resources, in a form of insurance, to guarantee that any test 
> case will be fully litigated to ensure that a bad precedent isn't set.  What 
> if it cost a million dollars?  That's only about 5 cents per American 
> Internet user.
> 
> You were saying about "going bankrupt"?
> 

	I urge Mr. Bell to start an ISP insurance company, then.  Let
us see how long it lasts. Perhaps I should put up a web page for the
betting pool we can have.

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