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A fine example of a headline editor stating one thing ("morass!") and the author stating another ("probably no morass right now, but in a corrupt congress, that
by alexqgb 14y ago
A fine example of a headline editor stating one thing ("morass!") and the author stating another ("probably no morass right now, but in a corrupt congress, that could change.")
- debacle 14y agoIt is a legal morass, we just are only on the edges of it now. The 3D printing battle will be bloodier than the digital copying battle, precisely because there is much more to lose.
- planetguy 14y agoI have my doubts. I think there's more money in selling copyrighted content than in selling the fairly narrow range of products that can be produced with a 3D printer. Looking around the room right now, the number of objects here that could be cranked out with any 3D printer is pretty darn small. For those that could, I doubt it would be any cheaper for me to 3D-print the darn thing, even if I already had the 3D printer, than it was for me to buy the real mass-produced deal. The article's example of "little figurines" is the only example I can think of, and the little figurine industry isn't large compared to music or movies.
- joshuahedlund 14y agoThe range of products that can be produced with a 3D printer today may be significantly smaller than the range of products that can be produced with a 3D printer in X years.