Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 days agoThis is stupid easy to bypass plus you still need metal parts to make it work
Guns are actually really easy to make and can be assembled from parts found at a local hardware store. If you want something fancier you could even mill a gun out of metal
Hawanja@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah but a right wing incel maniac trying to get a gun to go blow away a high school isn’t going to know how to mill his own gun. He might download on and use his father’s 3D printer to make one.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
You can’t use a 3D printer to make a working gun and it isn’t possible to distinguish a gun from anything else.
This is security theater that hurts the general public and small businesses while giving yet more power to the wealthy
Hawanja@lemmy.world 3 days ago
How does it hurt the general public, exactly? By not letting them shoot each other?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Because mass surveillance is bad? I don’t want my printer to send everything I print to private companies
Even if you are somehow ok with the surveillance, there are still issues with copywrite. I’m pretty sure it would be pretty easy for some large company to seal ideas or to prevent you from making replacement parts for stuff that you bought and paid for
echodot@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Won’t you just use his father’s gun? That’s what they always seem to do.