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29 Oct '12, 8pm

Forbes on Viagra, Bitcoin and Intellectual Property: Stephan Kinsella · C4SIF BlogExcellent Forbes post by Jon M...

Excellent Forbes post by Jon Matonis, “Generic Viagra Industry Is Pro-Choice In Payments ,” in which he points out that “payment intervention” is being used to stamp out online pharmaceuticals, giving rise to increasing interest in alternative systems like bitcoin to evade control by the state-corporatist duopoly: Payment intervention is defined as the use of the payment mechanism to detect or prevent certain transactions that are deemed to be politically incorrect or against a particular jurisdiction’s law. The latest target is online pharmaceuticals and their affiliates providing medications such as generic or unlicensed Viagra, Nexium, or Lipitor, all of which are illegal for Americans to have mailed into the United States. In the recent paper “Priceless: The Role of Payments in Abuse-advertised Goods” presented at the 19th annual ACM Computer and Communications Securit...

Full article: http://c4sif.org/2012/10/forbes-on-viagra-bitcoin-and-int...

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