>>9604093I think the genie's already out of the bottle when it comes to intellectual property in a lot of ways. They can prevent people from starting up a business or company devoted to it, but there isn't any profit in chasing after hundreds of dudes putting knockoff parts to etsy as copyright's too easy to sidestep with extremely minor variations to design.
In ten or fifteen years everyone'll have a phone powerful enough to deepfake themselves in as the protagonist of any movie ever produced.
Physical shelf space in stores for stuff like collectibles is dwindling as Amazon continues to grow into a terrible eldritch entity of convenience. Times and technology are changing, and I think in the next generation the very idea of overstock or unsold merch when it comes to collectibles will be laughable as everything will be made to order by the customer.
