What I'm hoping for is something that goes much, much further than the conservative enablers of dog-eat-dog capitalism putting on a puppet show of cleaning house. But that's probably not going to happen just yet.

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

Back in the pre-internet age there were pirate publishers, especially in the third world, who would print physical copies of books, sell them, and never inform the author/their agent/their publisher just trousering the money. I think we can agree that this was piracy?

Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]