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I remembered the story when I was reading the musings of the Australian police about regulating the cad files. As soon as 3d printers will be able to replicate
by DoubleMalt 13y ago
I remembered the story when I was reading the musings of the Australian police about regulating the cad files.
As soon as 3d printers will be able to replicate themselves, every regulation will be moot. Information always finds a way to propagate.
- tvon 13y ago> As soon as 3d printers will be able to replicate themselves, every regulation will be moot. I don't get this. In theory, if it were illegal to print "Item #325" having 200 printers doesn't make it any less illegal to print "Item #325". > Information always finds a way to propagate. Doesn't this presuppose that no secret has ever been kept?
- fennecfoxen 13y agoWell, the other question is whether it will be legal to manufacture/sell printers which are capable of printing illegal things. If the printers are capable of self-replicating it will be implausible to enforce that sort of regulation. It is presumably already illegal to 3-D print several types of 3-D things, where such things themselves are illegal or where there is some form of copyright, trademark or patent infringement.
- DoubleMalt 13y ago>> As soon as 3d printers will be able to replicate themselves, every regulation will be moot. > I don't get this. In theory, if it were illegal to print "Item #325" having 200 printers doesn't make it any less illegal to print "Item #325". It might be illegal. But the law would be unenforceable. >> Information always finds a way to propagate. > Doesn't this presuppose that no secret has ever been kept? Valid point. What I meant is information that is out in the open. The cad files by Defense Distributed where published intentionally. You need a North Korean style regime to significantly slow down the propagation of such material.
- e12e 13y agoMost places you're not allowed to carry a knife in crowds. Doesn't really matter if you've made it yourself or not.
- Dylan16807 13y agoYou're not? I know some places ban very specific elements of 'knifes' that have nothing to do with how pokey they are for political reasons, but there are areas that actually ban having a knife?
- michaelerule 13y agothe only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves
- smacktoward 13y agoInformation always finds a way to propagate There are 1.3 billion people in China who would probably disagree.
- jbooth 13y agoYou can spin up US cloud providers from inside China and tunnel to them in about 15 minutes. It's just that most people don't bother -- there'll always be the people on the edge, though.