On 18 October 2012 19:07, Mark Cason <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/10/patent-could-shackle-3d-printers-drm.html In principle I am not against the underlying idea here. We may well move to a situation in the future where rather than shipping objects we ship the files to make objects. The problem then is that there is no way to sell only one object, the purchaser can go on to make an infinite number of items. So, as a designer you only get to sell your design once, then everyone has it. It probably won't work out like that, more than one copy of each song gets sold, as some people prefer to buy than to pirate. I see the idea of 3D DRM as a logical extension of copyright into a digitally distributed world. I don't see any reason that a printer manufacturer would lock out "free" designs, why should they? Even when iTunes DRM was at its strongest the devices would still play home-ripped MP3s or scratch-recorded content. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
