[Falkvinge]

The odd thing here is that the satire description predates the patent monopoly by six years, and may count as prior art.

[Bud]

Please let this happen, so that we may all come to believe more fervently in the goddess of karma.

[anothermachine]

That's ridiculous. Saying "wouldn't it be cool" isn't prior art. Describing a working system is.

[michaelfeathers]

Maybe the law has changed but I heard that a patent for a waterbed was once refused because Robert Heinlein had described one in a novel.