Re:Makita has made a sturdy coffee machine aimed at construc...
by Zak on Monday May 28, 2018 @08:07AM
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Patenting the connectors also seems like an abuse the patent system should prevent (there's not actually an invention there). As for DRM, I think we, the tech community should be pushing legislators a lot harder to roll back anticircumvention provisions.
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Re:Makita has made a sturdy coffee machine aimed at construc...
by lopmotr on Monday May 28, 2018 @03:33PM
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Yea, anti-circumvention law violates the idea that consenting adults should be allowed to do whatever they want in the privacy of their own home. I wonder what will happen to patents if 3D printers become more versatile and as common as 2D printers so common people can download items from online? The download surely won't be patent protected, and the end user might be able to legally print it under the "experimental use" exception.