Chapter 50: The Pirate Machine
[There is a lot of dialogue in this chapter, so in case some readers are confused, let's review the use of quotation marks together: (1) If the same person says it consecutively, if it is only divided into one natural paragraph, it will look like this (the X symbol is the content of the speech):
“XXXXXXXX。”
(2) But there are also times when a person has to divide into multiple natural paragraphs when the words are long in a row, in this case, the rule of using quotation marks is to add a preceding quotation mark at the beginning of each paragraph, but only the end of the last paragraph will be added with a closing quotation mark, which is like this:
“XXXXXXX
“XXXXX
“XXXXXXXX“
(3) In the end, if it is two people, you and I say a lot of back and forth, you can omit words and sentences such as "Zhang San said" and "Li Sidao" to indicate the identity of the speaker, and the default identity of the speaker is Zhang San→ Li Si → Zhang San and so on. If the first paragraph was said by Zhang San, then the second sentence was said by Li Si by default. Here's how it works:
"XXXXXX" (by default, Zhang San said)
"XXXXX" (by default, Li Si said)
"XXXXX" (by default, Zhang San said)
If there is more than one natural paragraph in the middle, it is also in accordance with the usage of paragraph (2). ]
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"There's a copyright mark on it. Can't sweep it. Cortana explained.
"Copyright notice? What is that? Gou Ke carefully flipped through the black octahedron and didn't find anything special.
"I explained to you before that under normal circumstances, printers need to have a production license to print things according to drawings, right?"
"Well, it seems to be a bit impressive."
"The agriculture and manufacturing and retail industries that you are familiar with today will be replaced in the future by mining and copyright holders, who provide all kinds of printing materials, and copyright owners who provide printers, print drawings and production licenses."
"Well, go ahead."
"Instead of buying a single finished manufactured product, the inhabitants of the future will directly buy the production license, and then use the raw materials provided by the mining group to print the various items needed from the home printer, this production and consumption model can greatly alleviate the pressure on logistics, and is more suitable for the interstellar era than the one you are familiar with."
"So what does this have to do with this black octahedron?"
"What I'm going to say is this, when the atomic-level 3D printers that will be commonly used in the future first came out, they caused a lot of losses to the manufacturing industry. Not only is the general product selling poor, but also the protection of patent rights is also a problem. In response, the major patent holders have come up with a number of countermeasures. And the copyright mark on this black square is a product of this crisis.
"The first thing to consider is the industrial transformation, most manufacturers quickly give up the manufacture of finished goods and transform into printer drawing designers.
"In the beginning, buying a drawing meant buying out the production license of the drawing, but the problem was that consumers who only had to use a certain type of product once would have to spend more money to buy out the production license of the drawing, and the designer would make less money from consumers who would have to use many of those products.
Faced with this problem, the designers intervened with the intervention of the administrative forces to modify all the various types of printers, while at the same time legally separating the drawings from the production license. In this way, instead of the drawings, the consumer buys a production license in terms of the number of times, and the drawings are only the information about the atomic arrangement of the product that is provided with the initial purchase of the production license. On the other hand, the drawing designer uses the authorized production license to cash out the copyright of the drawings in his hand. ”
"Isn't that the same as buying a finished product directly? Anyway, you can only produce a limited number of goods, so it's easier to buy them directly, right? Gou Ke thought it was funny, so he interrupted Cortana and asked.
"It's because of the problem of transportation, in the interstellar era, the drawing designer may be on a different planet several light years away, and it is very troublesome to transport items at such a distance. However, it is convenient to only transfer electronic data such as drawings and production licenses. Raw materials can also be obtained according to the principle of proximity. That's why the emergence of atomic-level printers will have such a big impact on the traditional manufacturing industry."
"Got it!" Gou Ke patted his head, "You continue to put"
"At the beginning, the 3D printing industry was not mature enough, and the means of copyright for drawing designers were mainly to make the built-in program of the 3D printer compulsory online to check the legality of copyright and production license.
"But this became a problem after the advent of time travel, because some remote areas of time and space may not be connected to the Internet, which will lead to the situation where the printer should be disconnected from the network even though it still has a production license.
"In addition, there are other problems that make a mess, so some special printer models have to cancel the networking program, such as military models and scientific research models. Not only do these models not have to be forced to check the integrity of drawing copyrights and production licenses online, but they can also scan new objects and add them to the drawing library on their own, so as to adapt to various space-time environments outside the realm of civilization. Production records only need to be submitted after returning to the network environment. ”
"And then they were quickly misused, right?" Gou asked, this is the obvious thing that will happen.
"Yes, in order to avoid such misuse to the damage to one's own copyright interests, one of the new protection measures is to store a piece of information containing copyright claims, that is, copyright notices, through the microstructure at the atomic level without affecting the use of the printed product. This piece of information is the same as the QR code you often use, and it can be read by scanning it. This information is included in the drawings of most new listings.
"Even for special models, when such information is scanned, its internal procedures will forcibly terminate the scan and prohibit the production of such items without a production license."
"Having said that, the one in my hand is also a scientific research model, so I can scan it myself to get the drawings. I thought all printers had this feature. Gou Ke looked at the printer in front of him and said. And since there is a copyright mark on this thing, it means that those people last night were from the future, right? ”
"That's right, so you have to be careful"
"Careful? Why? Gou Kefang was still thinking about whether those people could get in touch, but he didn't expect to receive a warning from Cortana in the next second, and he couldn't help but be a little worried.
"Because your printer is a pirate machine, and you have produced a lot of things illegally." Cortana's tone was a little gloating.
"Huh?"
"A pirate aircraft, as the name suggests, is a model that has been illegally modified and violates copyright laws and regulations. Your machine, maybe the interference team is for your convenience, so the networking module is removed, so you don't need to check the production records after entering the network. In addition, the restriction on production licenses has been removed, and it has become a model that can be printed indefinitely as long as there are drawings. In addition, the drawings they give you are also the kind that illegally erase the copyright logo.
"But you don't have to worry too much, if you use it until now, you will probably violate hundreds of laws, and if you are caught, you will be sentenced to prison for the rest of your life."
"Damn, will someone come and arrest me?" Hearing this, Gou Cao, who was a good law-abiding citizen, suddenly became nervous, and even the black octahedron was temporarily thrown aside.
"It's just this horned Gada, I don't think it will, but it is inevitable that there will be good people who will report it after seeing it, so it's best not to easily lift it when you meet people in the future, and stay away."
Since it can't be scanned because of the copyright mark, there is no way to understand its internal structure or what it is. So Gou Cao decided to keep it for now and not think about it anymore. On the contrary, he has another layer of danger for himself, so he should be cautious.
Anyway, let's get out of here first, it's too empty and unsheltered, and if a corpse chaser passes by, it will definitely be discovered. At this point, Gou Cao shouted to the soldiers of the National Front:
"If you don't find anything, just get in the car, it's time for me to go."