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Re:To 'Reclaim Future-Making', Amazon Workers Published Coll... by ryandrake on Monday April 28, 2025 @12:58PM (#43823546)
I supposed we'd reach the inevitable equilibrium: Corporations are allowed to use and profit from replicators, but individual people are not.
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Re:To 'Reclaim Future-Making', Amazon Workers Published Coll... by worldsayshi on Monday April 28, 2025 @02:29PM (#43824462)
Eventually replicators that can make other replicators would get invented and then who can or would care to enforce those laws?
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Re:To 'Reclaim Future-Making', Amazon Workers Published Coll... by ryandrake on Monday April 28, 2025 @03:17PM (#43824932)
Everyone has access to the "copy / cp" commands, yet the USA to this day criminalizes its use on certain digital files, at the behest of the (relatively small) Copyright Industry. I have no doubt that a working "copy, but for physical stuff" would be criminalized in the same way, this time with massive physical goods industries pushing for legislation. Enforcement would be draconian.
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Re:To 'Reclaim Future-Making', Amazon Workers Published Coll... by indoordin0saur on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @11:41AM (#43834163)
> Enforcement would be draconian.

Or at least some industry advocacy group would resurrect the "You wouldn't download a car!" ad campaign.

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