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Re:Criticized for overpriced parts, company gives away 3d sc... by qq66 on Monday September 24, 2012 @10:40PM (#4568252)
As 3D printing becomes truly mass-market, people who want to print copies of objects will start attacking physical product patents as strongly as they attack software patents and digital media copyright today (strong, coordinated opposition to these grew only with distribution channels).
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Re:Criticized for overpriced parts, company gives away 3d sc... by s_henry_paulson on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @09:06AM (#4570093)
You're ignoring the massive grey area that is "fair use"

There's a huge difference between me building something for my own personal use, as opposed to building a product and trying to sell it.

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Re:Criticized for overpriced parts, company gives away 3d sc... by qq66 on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @11:15AM (#4570763)
I'm not ignoring it -- people used to make mixtapes for friends and copy games on 5.25" floppies (see the classic "Don't Copy That Floppy" -- but only when online distribution became a reality did people start arguments of the nature that "IP should not exist on this category of entity."
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