At 09:52 AM 03/10/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Just wondering...
Would there be an easy "blacknet" way to offer those t-shirts that would
be un-shutdownable?
If you wanted to do all the work of printing and mailing t-shirts yourself,
and had a blacknet that was sufficiently strong for this kind of threat,
you could, but that's not the problem here. "Easy" is the problem.
Scannell's not trying to do a secret subversive t-shirt printing operation,
he's trying to do a convenient quick add-on to a publicity hack,
as well as making it easy for people who want to protest at airports
or annoy Delta when they're flying anyway to have cool shirts.
But he's in the publicity business, not the shirt business.
That's much different from the issue of where to do the web page,
which is at a small friendly provider in the US.
Cafepress.com is the best-known of a number of Internet shops that
do T-shirts, coffee mugs, etc. in single-quantity as well as large batches,
so if you want to get them printed, all you do is fill out a form
and hand them the jpegs and kaboom, you've got a T-shirt store
that will sell your shirts to anybody who wants to order them.
It's not the totally obvious model (which would be "fill out the form,
attach the jpeg, charge the credit card, get the shirt"),
but it scales well because they can do fulfillment directly to the
person who wants the shirt instead of the person who designs the shirt,
and it lets you pick the price of your shirt, anything from "cost" on up,
so if you want to do shirt designs as a business, you can.
