[gurps] Re: Internet on blue planet and like worlds

[Onno Meyer]

Eric wrote:
> 2) if the distance between colonies contains untamed land, rivers,
> marshes, 
> and so on, you will not want to lay a raw cable. If you don't own the 
> property between the sites, then you either build cable around, or use
> MW*.
> 
> * Unless there is legislation allowing them to tax broadcast transmissions
> over their proprty**.
> 
> ** Dont' laugh -- there are some ongoing law suits about this IRL...

Of course getting title to the land is much, much easier if it is raw 
and untamed, and legal systems can be designed from the ground 
up with modern requirements in mind. Silly and not so silly lawsuits
come up when circumstances change and the law has to fit them 
into established precedent because new legislation isn't forthcoming.

For starters, a colony might lay a surveying grid over the world and 
reserve 'infrastructure rights of way' between 'claimable plots'.

Onno