[null and void]

The right balance of freedom and ownership will allow 3D printing to flourish.

[null and void]

3-D printer ping.

[TheZMan]

So long as we control the data on our computers, no amount of DRM or inventive copyrights is going to deter, much less prevent people cracking the protections and printing out whatever they want. Thinking otherwise shows a fundamental lack of technical understanding that the author should’ve had before sitting down at the keyboard.

Sorry - it’s a pet peeve.

[M1903A1]

SFL...this topic fascinates me....

[muawiyah]

The various schemes advanced by the traditional recording industry hardly enriched those who thought they'd be protected. Taylor Swift, following on the very profitable example of Prince, released an album through two department store chains and sold over 1 million records in a couple of weeks ~

Protecting your intellectual property rights by beating up on computer users is not as good as making lots of money.

[Utmost Certainty]

Yawn. Another nail in the coffin of the intellectual property mafia.

A real information age won’t happen until the idiocy of IP law is abandoned.

[Deagle]

This is going to be a very interesting battle between patents and the ability to create items with 3D. This could be the battle of the century.

This 3D technology is an exceptional advancement and will test the previous standings in court. Gong to be fun watching though...

[Paladin2]

Gold bars made of Tungsten.

[longtermmemmory]

It will be 15 seconds before a work around happens.

It is not enough to have the patent since it will not take much effort to simply scan and duplicate.

a 3d photocopier.

planned obsolencence is in danger since parts will no longer be subject to being retired.

[longtermmemmory]

Oh this worked reaaaaaly well with region coding of DVDs......NOT

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Enter Nathan Myhrvold, former chief technology officer at Microsoft, and the head of Intellectual Ventures, a company promoting what it calls innovation marketplace services...

...but actually trying to make it's money by filing, camping on and suing over ridiculously broad patents it has no intention of ever putting to any practical use itself.

[factoryrat]

So, is the idea here to provide copy protection for 3D printing files? Or to control the use of a program through licensing and copyrights, like buying apps for a phone for example? From the way the article is written, it sounds like some one wants to put use controls on generic manufacturing processes (machining, rolling, stamping, welding, printing, etc.) verses just protecting IP content of a design.

[Jack of all Trades]

bkmk