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Re:The Theory of Interstellar Trade by dalore on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @08:36AM (#17549227)
Some people would value getting an original whatever item and would pay a premium for shipping, rather then just getting it replicated. Extremely wealthy people would show off all the original non replicated items they posses from far away civilizations.
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Re:The Theory of Interstellar Trade by lisper on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @01:11PM (#17551283)
That is only true because we don't yet have the technology for making atomically perfect copies of physical objects. No one pays a premium for "the original" of a digital image.
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