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California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/69760899
www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/01/california-passes-ban-on-3d-printed-firearms/5249148So much for the constitution
This so broad and vague as to be unconstitutional. It’s like mandating that computers have to have technology that prevents hate speech. A 3d printer, like a computer, a hammer, a pencil, or the myriad of other tools humans use is just a general tool that can be put to good or bad uses. It would be insane to require anti-skull bashing technology for hammers and it is crazy to burden 3d printer manufacturers to develop technology to try to do this. Moreover, 3d printers are just one way to make ghost guns. A better way may be just home CNC. Instead of additive technology laying down layers of plastic one by one, with home CNC you can take a block of metal and machine it out, subtractive technology. The bill does not impact home CNC. So dumb!
Replying to @N0t_5ure@lemmy.world
Lol, do you realize that regular 2D printer manufacturers have mandates for embedding codes in the prints so that they can be traced?
Or that Photoshop and photo editing software has mandated counterfeit bill detection features in it?
It doesn’t completely invalidate all of your points, but the idea is not as crazy or unprecedented as a hammer with anti murder technology. Hell even just basic cap guns have to have an orange tip.
As long as gun nuts kept insisting on designing and printing guns, this was inevitably going to happen. Like what the fuck did they think the end result of designing and distributing murder machines online was going to be?? Did they really think everyone, in every jurisdiction and country around the world, was going to agree with their dumbass Republican interpretation of the 2nd amendment?