Piracy is fucking the world over

[McMock]

I don't think any kind of copy protection can work because of this very basic priciple: If the program that was supposed to read the data can read it, another program, using the same method, will be able to read it as well.

I think the whole world will have to change from a distribution-based economy into something else. It doesn't make sense anymore to pay fifteen middlemen to get your cd from the recording studio to the listener if none of that is needed. These middlemen hike up the price and will have to go.

Seriously, I don't know what will happen, but it's going to be severe. I think the consequences will be greater than that of the discovery of the wheel.

I believe scientists have made the very first matter-creater in a laboratory not too long ago, which means they can create any kind of atoms from any kind of base material. That could mean that when you buy a new ikea closet you'd actually be paying for the blueprint, which would be emailed to you, upon which your matter creator would cough one out for you.

Kind of loopy, but not unrealistic, I think.