As 3D printing technology progresses and becomes cheaper, I wonder what effect it will have on the economy if decades from now you could essentially pirate almost anything that you could buy in a store.
how would it be pirating if you're using a freely available design you downloaded and built it yourself using the base materials you purchased?
If you're downloading plans for a product that has patented plans then you'd be pirating it if built it. Without the amount of data available to most pirates, I would doubt that people wouldn't scan anything and everything and make it available to other pirates. Granted it would be difficult if not impossible to build electronics without proprietary chips. Perhaps pirate isn't really the applicable term here, but I can't think of a better one.
As 3D printing technology progresses and becomes cheaper, I wonder what effect it will have on the economy if decades from now you could essentially pirate almost anything that you could buy in a store.
300 terabytes and a ton of steel away from your new car.
Obviously it would be impractical to attempt to pirate a car, unless you're into building cars.
As 3D printing technology progresses and becomes cheaper, I wonder what effect it will have on the economy if decades from now you could essentially pirate almost anything that you could buy in a store.
how would it be pirating if you're using a freely available design you downloaded and built it yourself using the base materials you purchased?
If you're downloading plans for a product that has patented plans then you'd be pirating it if built it. Without the amount of data available to most pirates, I would doubt that people wouldn't scan anything and everything and make it available to other pirates. Granted it would be difficult if not impossible to build electronics without proprietary chips. Perhaps pirate isn't really the applicable term here, but I can't think of a better one.
As 3D printing technology progresses and becomes cheaper, I wonder what effect it will have on the economy if decades from now you could essentially pirate almost anything that you could buy in a store.
300 terabytes and a ton of steel away from your new car.
Obviously it would be impractical to attempt to pirate a car, unless you're into building cars.
so how would you get the plans for a copyrighted device that isn't even built on a rep rap?
it's not like you just scan it into a rep rap and it would come up with the plans
you could try reverse engineering it, but that probably wouldn't violate the copyright
this isn't like copying the already digitally encoded information on a cd or breaking the protection on a wmp
As 3D printing technology progresses and becomes cheaper, I wonder what effect it will have on the economy if decades from now you could essentially pirate almost anything that you could buy in a store.
how would it be pirating if you're using a freely available design you downloaded and built it yourself using the base materials you purchased?
If you're downloading plans for a product that has patented plans then you'd be pirating it if built it. Without the amount of data available to most pirates, I would doubt that people wouldn't scan anything and everything and make it available to other pirates. Granted it would be difficult if not impossible to build electronics without proprietary chips. Perhaps pirate isn't really the applicable term here, but I can't think of a better one.
As 3D printing technology progresses and becomes cheaper, I wonder what effect it will have on the economy if decades from now you could essentially pirate almost anything that you could buy in a store.
300 terabytes and a ton of steel away from your new car.
Obviously it would be impractical to attempt to pirate a car, unless you're into building cars.
As 3D printing technology progresses and becomes cheaper, I wonder what effect it will have on the economy if decades from now you could essentially pirate almost anything that you could buy in a store.
how would it be pirating if you're using a freely available design you downloaded and built it yourself using the base materials you purchased?
If you're downloading plans for a product that has patented plans then you'd be pirating it if built it. Without the amount of data available to most pirates, I would doubt that people wouldn't scan anything and everything and make it available to other pirates. Granted it would be difficult if not impossible to build electronics without proprietary chips. Perhaps pirate isn't really the applicable term here, but I can't think of a better one.
As 3D printing technology progresses and becomes cheaper, I wonder what effect it will have on the economy if decades from now you could essentially pirate almost anything that you could buy in a store.
300 terabytes and a ton of steel away from your new car.
Obviously it would be impractical to attempt to pirate a car, unless you're into building cars.
so how would you get the plans for a copyrighted device that isn't even built on a rep rap?
it's not like you just scan it into a rep rap and it would come up with the plans
you could try reverse engineering it, but that probably wouldn't violate the copyright
this isn't like copying the already digitally encoded information on a cd or breaking the protection on a wmp
Did you watch the video in the article that spacehog posted?
As 3D printing technology progresses and becomes cheaper, I wonder what effect it will have on the economy if decades from now you could essentially pirate almost anything that you could buy in a store.
how would it be pirating if you're using a freely available design you downloaded and built it yourself using the base materials you purchased?
If you're downloading plans for a product that has patented plans then you'd be pirating it if built it. Without the amount of data available to most pirates, I would doubt that people wouldn't scan anything and everything and make it available to other pirates. Granted it would be difficult if not impossible to build electronics without proprietary chips. Perhaps pirate isn't really the applicable term here, but I can't think of a better one.
As 3D printing technology progresses and becomes cheaper, I wonder what effect it will have on the economy if decades from now you could essentially pirate almost anything that you could buy in a store.
300 terabytes and a ton of steel away from your new car.
Obviously it would be impractical to attempt to pirate a car, unless you're into building cars.
so how would you get the plans for a copyrighted device that isn't even built on a rep rap?
it's not like you just scan it into a rep rap and it would come up with the plans
you could try reverse engineering it, but that probably wouldn't violate the copyright
this isn't like copying the already digitally encoded information on a cd or breaking the protection on a wmp
Well futurist Ray Kurzweil thinks computers will reach and surpass human intelligence around 2029, so you could just make a robot with a Reprap built into it and show it a picture of the car!
Of course, you'd have a problem with replicators taking over the world.
As 3D printing technology progresses and becomes cheaper, I wonder what effect it will have on the economy if decades from now you could essentially pirate almost anything that you could buy in a store.
how would it be pirating if you're using a freely available design you downloaded and built it yourself using the base materials you purchased?
If you're downloading plans for a product that has patented plans then you'd be pirating it if built it. Without the amount of data available to most pirates, I would doubt that people wouldn't scan anything and everything and make it available to other pirates. Granted it would be difficult if not impossible to build electronics without proprietary chips. Perhaps pirate isn't really the applicable term here, but I can't think of a better one.
As 3D printing technology progresses and becomes cheaper, I wonder what effect it will have on the economy if decades from now you could essentially pirate almost anything that you could buy in a store.
300 terabytes and a ton of steel away from your new car.
Obviously it would be impractical to attempt to pirate a car, unless you're into building cars.
so how would you get the plans for a copyrighted device that isn't even built on a rep rap?
it's not like you just scan it into a rep rap and it would come up with the plans
you could try reverse engineering it, but that probably wouldn't violate the copyright
this isn't like copying the already digitally encoded information on a cd or breaking the protection on a wmp
Did you watch the video in the article that spacehog posted?
I absolutely did
yes, you can download plans others have made
that doesn't mean someone will be able to take a Dell computer, scan it somehow in a reprap, and then put the plans online to make illegal copies
so what's your point?
As 3D printing technology progresses and becomes cheaper, I wonder what effect it will have on the economy if decades from now you could essentially pirate almost anything that you could buy in a store.
how would it be pirating if you're using a freely available design you downloaded and built it yourself using the base materials you purchased?
If you're downloading plans for a product that has patented plans then you'd be pirating it if built it. Without the amount of data available to most pirates, I would doubt that people wouldn't scan anything and everything and make it available to other pirates. Granted it would be difficult if not impossible to build electronics without proprietary chips. Perhaps pirate isn't really the applicable term here, but I can't think of a better one.
As 3D printing technology progresses and becomes cheaper, I wonder what effect it will have on the economy if decades from now you could essentially pirate almost anything that you could buy in a store.
300 terabytes and a ton of steel away from your new car.
Obviously it would be impractical to attempt to pirate a car, unless you're into building cars.
so how would you get the plans for a copyrighted device that isn't even built on a rep rap?
it's not like you just scan it into a rep rap and it would come up with the plans
you could try reverse engineering it, but that probably wouldn't violate the copyright
this isn't like copying the already digitally encoded information on a cd or breaking the protection on a wmp
Did you watch the video in the article that spacehog posted?
I absolutely did
yes, you can download plans others have made
that doesn't mean someone will be able to take a Dell computer, scan it somehow in a reprap, and then put the plans online to make illegal copies
so what's your point?
Which is why I said that people wouldn't be able to make electronics without the chips, but if the only things you can't make are electronics, then how would that effect the economy? I wasn't making a point, I was simply musing.
Yeah, but also that the materials for a Reprap today only costs about €500, which is interesting to me because I think being able to create blueprints to send around digitally for others to use is dang cool. The aspect of replicating it to friends is also awesome to me. I am big on community type stuff, though.
Just the potential this shows for the future is pretty neat to think about.
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not saying it was bad, but it wasn't all that good
I started it but then I found better books to read.
I totally thought about it when I read about reprap, though.
If you're downloading plans for a product that has patented plans then you'd be pirating it if built it. Without the amount of data available to most pirates, I would doubt that people wouldn't scan anything and everything and make it available to other pirates. Granted it would be difficult if not impossible to build electronics without proprietary chips. Perhaps pirate isn't really the applicable term here, but I can't think of a better one.
Obviously it would be impractical to attempt to pirate a car, unless you're into building cars.
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it's not like you just scan it into a rep rap and it would come up with the plans
you could try reverse engineering it, but that probably wouldn't violate the copyright
this isn't like copying the already digitally encoded information on a cd or breaking the protection on a wmp
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Did you watch the video in the article that spacehog posted?
Well futurist Ray Kurzweil thinks computers will reach and surpass human intelligence around 2029, so you could just make a robot with a Reprap built into it and show it a picture of the car!
Of course, you'd have a problem with replicators taking over the world.
I would use it to construct stuff, what stuff I'm not sure but I know it would be cool
yes, you can download plans others have made
that doesn't mean someone will be able to take a Dell computer, scan it somehow in a reprap, and then put the plans online to make illegal copies
so what's your point?
This is exactly how I feel. I would get one but not be able to think of anything I really need from it.
I would just end up making more Repraps with it.
Which is why I said that people wouldn't be able to make electronics without the chips, but if the only things you can't make are electronics, then how would that effect the economy? I wasn't making a point, I was simply musing.
does it say anywhere what plastic it uses as the material?
because if it's sandable that opens up a whole other set of possibilities
Here's a list of some of them.
I am going to build things!
I do like things
the 3d printer made an electronic circuit board thing, which isn't really easy for a 3d printer to do
Just the potential this shows for the future is pretty neat to think about.