Feds threaten to arrest lavabit founder for shutting down service

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8. It strikes me that the answer to this is to make 10,000 people owners. Maybe a nonprofit or LLC.

They would all have visibility into what the corp is served with or ordered to do, (If all of them decided to disclose what they knew, it would make for a very jolly federal prison time. Nice too, because they would likely have to build a new facility).

What say - put up a website, crowd fund a mail server for $5 each (would have to check on the cost, create some corporate papers, figure out how changes and political ambitions and jealousies would be handled), but around there. And everyone who pays signs on as an officer of the corporation. We then set the fees at nearly nothing, just enough to keep it all running, a few admins, some kinds of HR and legal team...get some decent Linux boxes, run some web servers, find a POP to hook on. It's doable.

It's not much different from what the banks did when contracting with companies that did their robo-signing. Except, of course, that it would be legal.

As I think about it, we would probably have 100,000 people in a relatively short time...$5 to join as an owner, $10 every year on an anniversary date, and there would probably be a waiting list...