Sounds to me like a great opportunity for emergent gameplay. You infringe on my copyright? I'll hire a mercenary group to "enforce" my copyrights. Perhaps players could form some kind of legal system, as was mentioned. If rebuilding civilisation is the goal, building a democratic legal system would be a hell of an achievement, as opposed to just lawless space cowboys.
There's also the possibility of DRM style code in LUA, which could wreak all manner of havoc if certain conditions weren't met (ie, hash of shipID + license code doesn't match stored value, turn on all the engines and overload the power core).
Sounds to me like a great opportunity for emergent gameplay. You infringe on my copyright? I'll hire a mercenary group to "enforce" my copyrights. Perhaps players could form some kind of legal system, as was mentioned. If rebuilding civilisation is the goal, building a democratic legal system would be a hell of an achievement, as opposed to just lawless space cowboys. There's also the possibility of DRM style code in LUA, which could wreak all manner of havoc if certain conditions weren't met (ie, hash of shipID + license code doesn't match stored value, turn on all the engines and overload the power core).