The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you’ve already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

  • bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Imagine if startrek was written with IP in mind. Instead of all these wunderkinds being all gung ho about implementing their warp field improvements on your reactor you’d get some ferengi shilling the latest and greatest “marketable” blech engine improvements.

    Fiction is much better without reality leeching in.

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      Star Trek was set in a future utopia. One of the key things about the show is that it’s a post-scarcity world where even physical objects can be replicated.

      They definitely wrote the series with IP in mind… in that their view of a future utopia was one where not only did copyright etc. not exist, but nobody cared much about the ownership of physical objects either.