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What MAFIAA wants is an online world where no one can do nothing - yes, that's what they are after

I don't think so. I think that what *AA are after is a world where everyone who ever uses any sort of "content" (listens to any sort of sound ; reads any sort of word ; views any sort of image ; smells any sort of scent ; tastes any sort of taste ; feels any sort of texture ; has any sort of sensation), then the "owner" of that content gets paid immediately, and that any "reuse" of that content (including by re-experiencing the content in one's memory) also incurs (and actually pays) a fee.

We don't (yet) have much technology relevant to the textures and sensations, or to controlling or detecting the use of in-skull memory to replay. YET.

• Sound and image (static ; moving ; 3d-moving) and word content control we're very familiar with already;
• scent copyrighting (perfume etc) and counterfeiting is well known though not so many people think of it as being the same issue ;
• taste copyrighting and control ... is much more distributed, but the Mc-PizzaHut-Donald-Heinz-Kraft conglomerate (I tried to think of a non-American food conglomerate, but can't. Oh, sorry, Nestle ; half-Swiss?) are clearly working along this axis (warning signs that "home cooking is killing the food industry" are coming to a saucepan shop near you!). In the (unlikely) event that Star Trek-esque food replicators ever exist, someone, somewhere is going to want to get paid for using their "recipe" for "Tea, Earl Grey, hot." ;
• texture content control ... well, clothing companies are very picky about the feel of their fabrics ; there was that fuss a short while ago about the "shark skin" swimming suits, which is (partly) a textural issue. This will grow. When programmable textures (smart fabrics that can alter their stiffness, warmth, etc under the control of digital content) become available, then there will be content wars over this too. Haptic technology is crawling in this direction, and we see reports here regularly.
• Put that together with teledildonics, and it won't be long before the porn industry starts to sell the experience of, say, a blow job from $porn star$, for a one-time use fee of $currency$. And then wants to charge you again for a repeat performance.

(Actually ... on that tangent, it might be that the girls and receptive guys might get the teledildonics experience first, because the equipment may be simpler and probably cheaper. Doing a quantum of research and "There also exists a DIY community experimenting with teledildonics, centered on opendildonics.org, the Slashdong blog and the Arse Elektronika conference." Oh dear, I'm not sure I want to pursue those links any further. NOT SAFE until the wife goes to the gym.)

Remote control of sufficiently flexible chemistry sets to make-on-download this odour molecule, or that taste molecule, then deliver it ... that's a difficult problem. But lab-on-a-chip is a real, existing technology, so I'd class it as a "difficult" problem, but not necessarily "impossible".

well, could even happen with an evolution of buffer overflows in spam filter software.

(german, however you can look up waiting for goto at monochrom wiki)

well, could even happen with an evolution of buffer overflows in spam filter software.

(german, however you can look up waiting for goto at monochrom wiki)

Crap!

The railroad link is supposed to be http://www.monochrom.at/turingtrainterminal/abstract_eng.htm

First Post!

I totally agree. This concept seems really neat, but all we're gonna get is a bunch of clip shows from people who think they're being creative. And then we're gonna get clip shows of clip shows. And clip shows of clip shows of clip shows. And then... the Hasselhofian recursion!

As for linux. choice isn't good. People get overwhelmed easily. So anythign more then 2 or 3 choices makes them go cross eyed and buy windows.

  Yeah, people are so stupid! I remember just yesterday walking down the cereal aisle, thinking they should just stop making all those other cereals so the dumb people -- who don't know which one is the cereal for the right-thinking person -- would buy grape-nuts, like me. Fortunately with computers the unwashed "proletariat" have a "vanguard" of smart people like us around, that can make the choices for them, right comrade?
  And with that in mind, I present The Command Economy song!

Not boring.

Last xmas I told my grandma that I didn't like her crocheted pullovers I get from her every year. She thought about it very thouroghly and decided that this year I was in need of a new laptop bag. Granny is the best!