''Superdistribution: Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier'', by BradCox. Addison Wesley, 

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0201502089.01._PE_PI_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg
[ISBN 0201502089].

  The Good News: There is a Silver Bullet.
  The Bad News: Silver Bullets are Paradigm Shifts, Not Tools.

BradCox describes SuperDistribution at http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Superdistribution/index.html,
part of his Middle of Nowhere web pages.

CategoryBook

Review: http://dannyreviews.com/h/Superdistribution.html

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For recent developments, see http://virtualschool.edu/mybank, 
a fully functional technology feasibility demonstration of the whole
system. --BradCox

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Or you can read Clay Shirky's

* Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content (http://shirky.com/writings/fame_vs_fortune.html)
* The Case Against Micropayments (http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2000/12/19/micropayments.html)

to find out why SuperDistribution will never, ever work. '''Ever'''.