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Re:The Theory of Interstellar Trade by lisper on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @12:39PM (#17550980)
> In "a world where the technology exists to make atomically perfect copies", people would still pay a huge premium to have the first instance.

Do you see people paying huge premiums for "the first instance" of a digital image?

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Re:The Theory of Interstellar Trade by mirimir on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @07:21PM (#17554381)
I have no clue. I can imagine that some collector might pay a premium for the workstation, shut down at the moment that the image was last saved. Or the dated disk image.
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