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Of course the 'money' in this is abstracting away the complexities of Open Bazaar with your own app since their example GUI is pretty confounding. For example c

Of course the 'money' in this is abstracting away the complexities of Open Bazaar with your own app since their example GUI is pretty confounding. For example create a designer clothing app that only lists other designer clothing listings (to not scare away customers who discover a bunch of heroin for sale on OB with the regular GUI), then sell the ranking they appear in your app, or in app ads as a small example. I don't like the Moderator rating system though, seems too easy to game and has too many worthless stages 1-5. Bitcoin-OTC ratings are more clear. The rating "This is a scam avoid at all costs" opens the door for legal issues of people trying to sue the developers like when Ebay gave up on negative feedback due to too many lawsuits. Of course there is also issues of governments trying to shut down this completely due to weapons and narcotics undoubtedly being sold on OB in the future, I assume the creators have a plan for dealing with that inevitable gov harassment. The creators/maintainers should also be careful where they travel, if they fly to say, China, Indonesia or Turkey for any reasons they could be arrested there and pushed through a kangaroo court.

asciimo 11y ago
Is BitTorrent, Inc. harassed in these ways?
- pakled_engineer 11y ago
  Cohen and Navin made a deal with the MPAA to remove links to illegal content on the official BitTorrent website which opened the door for 3rd party tracker sites like the piratebay to do so. I imagine this will happen with OB the official app will be crippled by lawsuits but of course this all depends what they have told each other in private unencrypted emails and the dev mailing list. There's already a thread where Patterson advocates to recommend suggesting that developers talking about OpenBazaar with the public cite example products that are “illicit but socially acceptable" such as Fireworks and Radar Detectors. “Stuff that people wouldn’t disagree with but is technically illegal to sell because of stupid laws.” Seems nobody has learned from the Megaupload case how you can talk yourself into problems with overzealous prosecutors.
  - ultramancool 11y ago
    Yup, there's a good reason why many open source peer to peer file sharing tools, torrent streamers, video players, usenet downloaders, etc all happen to use Big Buck Bunny or similar free products... They should really be selling Big Buck Bunny DVDs in all their examples, they're going to get fucked sideways if they suggest anything remotely questionable in any official context.

asciimo 11y ago

Is BitTorrent, Inc. harassed in these ways?

pakled_engineer 11y ago
Cohen and Navin made a deal with the MPAA to remove links to illegal content on the official BitTorrent website which opened the door for 3rd party tracker sites like the piratebay to do so. I imagine this will happen with OB the official app will be crippled by lawsuits but of course this all depends what they have told each other in private unencrypted emails and the dev mailing list. There's already a thread where Patterson advocates to recommend suggesting that developers talking about OpenBazaar with the public cite example products that are “illicit but socially acceptable" such as Fireworks and Radar Detectors. “Stuff that people wouldn’t disagree with but is technically illegal to sell because of stupid laws.” Seems nobody has learned from the Megaupload case how you can talk yourself into problems with overzealous prosecutors.
- ultramancool 11y ago
  Yup, there's a good reason why many open source peer to peer file sharing tools, torrent streamers, video players, usenet downloaders, etc all happen to use Big Buck Bunny or similar free products... They should really be selling Big Buck Bunny DVDs in all their examples, they're going to get fucked sideways if they suggest anything remotely questionable in any official context.