Txchnologist: Dangerous Dimensions: 3-D Printing’s Coming Moral and Legal Dilemmas
… With these issues in mind, here are three examples of renegade 3-D printing that will inevitably lead to moral and legal dilemmas.
Copyright and Patent Law in Three Dimensions
This year, The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing website notorious for flouting copyrights by allowing users to upload and download digital media, introduced a new category to organize uploaded blueprints of 3-D printing models. …
A 3-D Printed Escape
Are 3-D printers the new “get-out-of-jail-free” card? One hacker says yes. At a Hackers On Planet Earth conference, “Ray,” a security consultant and hacker, demonstrated that by using only a laser-cutter and a 3-D printer, handcuff keys could be easily reproduced. …
Downloadable Prescription Drugs
Chemistry Professor Lee Cronin of the University of Glasgow leads a team of 45 researchers in a project to build a 3-D printer capable of producing prescription drugs. …
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