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Charles Stross' Rule 34 dealt with this concept: fabricators with DRM that only allowed them to print legitimate items, and a thriving black market of hacked fa

Charles Stross' Rule 34 dealt with this concept: fabricators with DRM that only allowed them to print legitimate items, and a thriving black market of hacked fabricators and illegal or unlicensed designs. Good stuff - futurism, but perhaps the not-too-distant future.

jrockway 15y ago
xkcd's take: http://xkcd.com/305/ http://xkcd.com/305/
- TeMPOraL 15y ago
  Much more relevant: http://xkcd.com/924/ http://xkcd.com/924/ (is there a topic which xkcd hadn't nailed already?)
  - eru 15y ago
    > is there a topic which xkcd hadn't nailed already? Try and find something about the financing of the costs of German reunification.
wmf 15y ago
I think that idea appeared 15 years earlier in The Diamond Age, although people were setting their sights higher then.
- lukejduncan 15y ago
  fantastic book; and the first thing I thought of when I saw the original article