Cross posted from https://lemmy.today/post/53815538
Cross posted from https://lemmy.today/post/53815017
First tool ban is here! A new law was just signed in New York that requires blueprint blocking technology on every CNC machine, laser cutter, lathe and 3D printer. This affects everyone who makes, builds or fixes things. This isn’t a firearms law. It’s a manufacturing law. And they buried it in the budget because they knew exactly what it was.
Haven’t watched the video, but how does this work out in practice?
How can a CNC differ between my own design and a design I’ve got from a homepage?
Also, how can they block me from sharing my designs for fixing something on a device?
I’m a quite flabbergasted how this should work
Or is there no practical mechanism, only the law that makes everything illegal I try to fix?
That would also be quite an asshole move, but who cares, when I fix a broken hinge in an old appliance?
As long as I don’t return it for warranty, the producer has pretty much no say, what I do with my fucking stuff…?