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I think that the problem is exactly that paypal and credit cards try to solve the trust issue, but they do it in a simplistic way that heavily favors the buyer.
by wcoenen 15y ago
I think that the problem is exactly that paypal and credit cards try to solve the trust issue, but they do it in a simplistic way that heavily favors the buyer.
Let payments be payments like cash, and solve trust issues separately with things like escrow services.
- epscylonb 15y agoThis is where bitcoin may be useful.
- JumpCrisscross 15y agoIt seems like this rule is designed to benefit not the buyer but an extra-transactional party, namely, the IP owner - that is usually the case in anti-counterfeit programmes. The case of the violin is just a perversion of a rule that was probably implemented to prevent the sale of fake watches, handbags, and the like.