Lord British Claims He Owns the Moon

An anonymous reader writes "Following the recent discovery of Richard Garriott's old moon rover, the man known as Lord British has laid claim to his own lunar territory. Moon dwellers, all hail your new overlord!"

Comments

Lord British can go suck a dick.

[Chas]

'Nuff said.

No way property rights are going to fly in space

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks to the recent evolutions in IP law and temporary licensing, expect to see the same principles applied to space. (Most likely through a world-wide governance body of some sort created by treaty). You have have it as long as you're properly licensing its use....

Unless China wins... then we'll get cheap knockoffs of space available at Walmart and never need the real one till its loo late.