http://vimeo.com/41180856https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hmiBzvW4P40This feature on Silk Road and bitcoin on Australian TV actually made quite a positive appearance!
It is amusing and entertaining to watch.
Lines like:
"To access the site you use a router that makes you impossible to track."
"To pay for drugs, you use BITCOIN! An online currency, that can be bought, transferred and converted back into real-live currency completely anonymously"
"Sounds almost too crazy to believe."
make it almost sound like advertising.
Monica Barratt from the National Drug Research Institute adds :
"It reduces the potential for straight violence and because there is a rating system there it increases the recourse to justice if a seller sold you something that wasnt as described."
But it also takes us a step forward in how the media represents the Silk Road, by shining some light on the positive implications this service may have for society, rather then giving an incomplete picture.
