Danger, Will Robinson
Thursday, November 3rd, 2005 08:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniWARNING: Deeply frightening material below. This is not a parody. This is Real Life.
Andrew Knight's patent application to claim a specific plotline (essentially the "And Then He/She/It/They Woke Up" plot) has been published.
I can't even begin to explain this one. Read it for yourself.
Y'know? Between this guy, Dr. Lessig, Google, and Amazon.com's new Pages program (where they'll sell customers specific electronic pages of books for a few cents per) and Update program (where they'll provide any customer buying a paper book with an electronic copy), writers are looking at being out of business by, oh, next Thursday.
Sheeeesssh.
Andrew Knight's patent application to claim a specific plotline (essentially the "And Then He/She/It/They Woke Up" plot) has been published.
I can't even begin to explain this one. Read it for yourself.
Y'know? Between this guy, Dr. Lessig, Google, and Amazon.com's new Pages program (where they'll sell customers specific electronic pages of books for a few cents per) and Update program (where they'll provide any customer buying a paper book with an electronic copy), writers are looking at being out of business by, oh, next Thursday.
Sheeeesssh.
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Date: 2005-11-03 10:46 pm (UTC)