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'Pirate Bay' for 3D printing launched
BBC ^

Posted on 03/12/2013 1:15:24 PM PDT by Perdogg

The company that developed 3D printed gun parts has announced plans to launch a new firm, dedicated to copyright-free blueprints for a range of 3D printable objects.

Defcad, as the firm will be known, has already been dubbed the Pirate Bay of 3D printing.

The site will become a "search engine for 3D printing," according to its founders.

But its flouting of copyright is likely to face legal challenges.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist

1 posted on 03/12/2013 1:15:24 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

So is it a site for “copyright-free” plans, or is it a site for pirating copyright-protected plans? The lede isn’t supported by the rest of the story. Very poorly written.


2 posted on 03/12/2013 1:27:17 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Perdogg

Given the dozens, perhaps hundreds of AR-15 lower receiver variants currently on the market, I wonder if there is still a patent in force. The AR “clones” really got rolling in the ‘80s, and I can’t recall any court challenge based on the design.


3 posted on 03/12/2013 1:29:30 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Because the pirate bay has many torrents that are copyright free as well.


4 posted on 03/12/2013 2:19:43 PM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: Perdogg

It’s maybe months now before we wonder how we ever lived without 3-d printers.


5 posted on 03/12/2013 2:28:20 PM PDT by OldNewYork (Biden '13. Impeach now.)
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To: Perdogg

We need 3dprinting of mines, claymores, grenades, and more.

Guns and magazines are hardly enough.


6 posted on 03/12/2013 2:28:39 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

I don’t think there’s a copyright on the dimensions and design of a Claymore, for example, or an antitank mine with an EFP.


7 posted on 03/12/2013 2:31:54 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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To: Hardraade; All

“We need 3dprinting of mines, claymores, grenades, and more.”

It is the detonators and explosive fillers for the above that are difficult. The bodies are not very hard to make.

Hand grenades, using black powder, are a 17th century technology. I have a fragment of a 17th century hand grenade. The privateers of the Carribbean made their own. Do a sand casting of cast iron of a three inch hollow ball. Fill it with fine black powder, and put a fuze on it.

Grenade.

Getting the fuze just right is a difficult part.

Before the U.S. cracked down on freedom of the press, you could buy printed books with details on how to do it. Now you have to go to the Internet.


8 posted on 03/12/2013 2:35:48 PM PDT by marktwain (The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: Perdogg

Who needs a 3-D printer? I have a box of Pop-Tarts and I’m an artist when it comes to chewing pastry.


9 posted on 03/12/2013 2:41:11 PM PDT by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: marktwain

You may want to print the pin first... Just say’n.


10 posted on 03/12/2013 3:59:58 PM PDT by alpo (What would Selco do?)
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To: TigersEye

For grenades just pull the pin on that jelly donut and watch the union teachers explode.


11 posted on 03/12/2013 5:12:54 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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To: JohnBovenmyer

I am in the process of chewing a sheet cake into a hydrogen bomb. I’m too full to finish it right now but when I get hungry again I’m going to hold the world hostage to my demands. Mostly I want bacon!


12 posted on 03/12/2013 5:33:53 PM PDT by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: Perdogg
"...the things institutions and industries have an interest in keeping from us; access, medical devices, drugs, goods, guns."

Uh, I can't really decode what he means by printing "access", and "goods" is so vague as to be meaningless, but if he thinks you can 3D print drugs, he must have failed his remedial stupidity class. (I think he's confusing it with a replicator.)

13 posted on 03/13/2013 12:05:42 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Perdogg

I’ll be happy if I can print all the plastic parts, including lenses, for my cars. The ability to replace all those hard-to-find parts at will and forever might finally break the auto unions.


14 posted on 03/13/2013 12:28:53 AM PDT by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda machine.)
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To: marktwain

Thing about the printing process is that it’s easy too make the stuff out of nondetectable materials.

The Germans. during WWII, made antitank mines of wood. This is much easier and neater. Grenade/Claymore shrapnel? Marbles. All kindsa neat.


15 posted on 03/13/2013 4:33:22 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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