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California’s 3D Printer Law Would Criminalize Open Source, Enshittify The 3D Printing Space (www.techdirt.com)
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[–] 90 points 6 months ago (7 children)

That was the idea. Tech companies don‘t want us to have nice things because it makes their products look all the more shitty. And so they attack anything open source that they don‘t directly benefit from. Some investors are probably seeing the shitty ink printer business and hope they can degrade 3D printing to that degree too. They take any opportunity to fuck the small people for a chance of making an easy buck.

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  • [+] -8 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    This has nothing to do with the tech industry. This is the firearms industry 100%.

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    If the firearms industry think that a 3d printed gun is good enough to compete with them, they are selling shitty products.

    It is more plausible that they want to control the 3d printed guns because they are not able (or willing) to stop the people who want to commit some kind of crimes and cannot buy a gun from building one (since, as I understand, to buy the components it seems you have not to undergo a backgroubd check).

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    You think we are at a endpoint with 3d printing technology? As technology improves the ability to make better parts will keep increasing.

    You are right, it is about control.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    You think we are at a endpoint with 3d printing technology? As technology improves the ability to make better parts will keep increasing.

    No, we are not at a endpoint even if I don't think there is much more to be done that can improve the tech in some revolutionary way.

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