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Bootleg Celebrity Copying
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Culture and Society > Politics & Government > Proscribed, Semi-legal and Illegal Activities
Technology > Technology Type or Material > Organic/Biotech
Culture and Society > Politics & Government > Proscribed, Semi-legal and Illegal Activities
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Making bootleg copies or character simulations of famous people.
These copies can take several forms;
- Illegal clones - stolen genetic material is used to make a cloned body or infant with the same DNA as the celebrity in question.
- Cloned meat products - some celebrities allow their DNA to be used to grow meat for modosophont consumption; however there is a thriving trade in meat grown from stolen DNA.
- Illegal character simulations - the personality of a celebrity can be copied using a variety of observational methods, or copied illegally from licensed character simulations, to create illicit virtual simms or charactervots. These can then be sold on the black market.
- Illegal copied of the full uploaded personality of a celebrity can be made, where available. This copy can be made from the data obtained during a backup procedure, in a so-called back-up hijack. Sometimes these hijacked copies can be sold as virtual slaves for sale to the highest bidder.
Related Articles
- Backup
- Charactervots (and related concepts)
- Copy
- Hijack, Backup hijack - Text by Steve Bowers
The crime of illegally copying an uploaded or stored personality, generally obtained during or after the backup procedure. These illegal copies can then be sold on the black market as virtual slaves, for use in computation or for entertainment. - House Holsta and The Copy War
- Upload
- Uploading Technology, The Early History of
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Development Notes
Text by M. Alan Kazlev, amended by Steve Bowers
Initially published on 31 October 2001.
Initially published on 31 October 2001.
