Was thinking of this after a conversation I had on a thread about dreams. Someone joked “I was dreaming of the events of The Matrix, then I was woken up by someone worried my dream was infringing the Wachowski’s copyrights”, and it turned into a whole train of thought in my mind, like violating IP law because you stole fire from Zeus which was his intellectual property.

  • @NeoNachtwaechter
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    253 months ago

    Parents have to pay a fee for the firstname they give their kids. Popular firstnames cost more, gross ones cost less.

    The kids themselves have to pay again for it monthly, their whole live long.

    • @pivot_root
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      93 months ago

      This might be the only valid reason to ever name a kid “Jayrahmyie”

    • @LouNeko
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      63 months ago

      Nah it should be like fetishes, the more obscure the more expensive. But you can get John or Mark for free.

      • @Fried_out_Kombi
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        53 months ago

        Some squatter who bought the rights to it for two twigs and a raspberry back when they were first selling off name rights 200,000 years ago