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Love the idea that if an opposing power developed force fields + compact fusion reactors, that the last line of defence would be patent law.
by conjectures 7y ago
Love the idea that if an opposing power developed force fields + compact fusion reactors, that the last line of defence would be patent law.
- rripken 7y agoI would read that if it was a novel. Picturing legal thriller blended with scifi. Maybe some military/political drama thrown in. Grisham/Clancy/Crichton
- conjectures 7y agoWith energy bolts hammering at her heels on every step, our plucky lawyer dived through the doors of the high court. Slamming the injunction docs into the outstretched arms of a waiting clerk she yelled at the shimmering blue spheres on the other side of the window, "You've been served."
- RandallBrown 7y agoThere's a book called Year Zero, by Rob Reid about our first contact with aliens. It turns out that humans are the only species in the universe capable of creating good music and as soon as other races detected our radio waves, they started listening to and reproducing our music. Eventually, the radio waves with our licensing information reach them and every alien race realizes they've been committing copyright infringement on an absolutely massive scale. Chaos and hijinks ensue.
- Can_Not 7y agoThe only realistic scenario I can think of for "aliens can't make good music" is that they're so lame they value the importance of out-of-jurisdiction copyright laws.