Comment by saurik
2 days ago
The result of these kinds of laws is that 3D printers are going to no longer be open devices with open source control software capable of printing anything, and will instead use this as a reason to become locked down ecosystems, where normal users can only print models approved by the centralized curation of a model store, and with a form of "model-signing" similar to Apple's most draconian versions of code-signing to provide some level of accountability in what the people with paid/approved designer accounts are printing for one-offs.
> use this as a reason to become locked down ecosystems
If it wasn't this, it would have been something else eventually. All things tend toward closed top-down controlled systems or whatever brings the most profit/power to the fewest people. It is our way.
Enjoy the time of 3D printer innovation and open use while it lasts.