At 09:24 AM 11/25/2002 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Steve's excellent analysis of how the Network Effect worked against
Mojo indicates a social-fix for Mojo++, ie: make it easy to get on
and get content. Ie, get them hooked. They'll at least be autosharing
stuff they've
downloaded.
Not re
Steve's excellent analysis of how the Network Effect worked against
Mojo indicates a social-fix for Mojo++, ie: make it easy to get on
and get content. Ie, get them hooked. They'll at least be autosharing
stuff they've
downloaded. After they're hooked, folks may feel like contributing
their time
On Saturday 23 November 2002 11:32 pm, Steve Schear wrote:
> At 04:59 PM 11/21/2002 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
> >Mojo was intended to do this but it failed, I think it failed
> >because they failed to monetize mojo before it was introduced
> >as service management mechanism.
I failed because
>Mojo was intended to do this but it failed, I think it failed
>because they failed to monetize mojo before it was introduced
>as service management mechanism.
I think that there is a generic failure of systems that expect some
pre-determined benevolence and cooperation from end users. Contrary to
At 04:59 PM 11/21/2002 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
Mojo was intended to do this but it failed, I think it failed
because they failed to monetize mojo before it was introduced
as service management mechanism.
I was part of the team and I respectively disagree. Sorry to sound a bit
like Burke
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:59:43 -0800, "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>We should get an anonymous micropayment system working,
>interconvertible to real money, or real e-gold, then apply it
>to such applications as mixmasters and darknet.
>
>Allegedly yodel is such a system, but yo
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> >Darknet is being undermined by free riders.
>
> They attribute this to 2 things: most are on 56Kbps, and legal
> harassment of large sharers is possible.
I attribute this to lack of agoric load levelling, and prestige
accounting. Legal harassmen
At 04:59 PM 11/21/02 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
>--
>According to Microsoft,
>
>http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/darknet5.doc
>
>Darknet is being undermined by free riders.
They attribute this to 2 things: most are on 56Kbps, and legal
harassment of
large sharers is possible.
I suspect i
--
According to Microsoft,
http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/darknet5.doc
Darknet is being undermined by free riders.
: : Peer-to-peer file sharing assumes that a
: : significant fraction of users adhere to the
: : somewhat post-capitalist idea of sacrificing their
: : ow
