Patent Troll grabs 3D Printing DRM patent to protect personal 3D printing
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[url]http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429566/nathan-myhrvolds-cunning-plan-to-prevent-3-d/[/url]
Essentially, someone patented DRM for 3D printing so that a company in the future cannot shut it down. He plans to sue anyone that enacts DRM on 3D objects for 3D printing.
In short, this guy is awesome
Patent troll? This is a good deed
Awesome, I've always wondered why people haven't done this before.
[QUOTE=JgcxCub;38014232]Patent troll? This is a good deed[/QUOTE]
A troll as far as big companies are concerned. Awesome for us, though!
Long live the age of creativity.
Watch big business hack on him like vultures, first through legal trouble and if that fails with money.
Everybody has a price.
[QUOTE=BloodYScar;38014259]Watch big business hack on him like vultures, first through legal trouble and if that fails with money.
Everybody has a price.[/QUOTE]
His company exists to file patents like this, they have something like 40,000 of them
What a cool guy
Lets hope no one buys the patent
I honestly can't tell if he's a good guy or a bad guy yet
the article isn't clear on it
Wasn't there someone who in the early days of animated motion pictures had patented the cels used so that no one else could patent them and inhibit anyone making animated movies/shorts/whatever I'm supposed to call them?
[QUOTE=JgcxCub;38014232]Patent troll? This is a good deed[/QUOTE]
[quote]Patent troll is a pejorative term used for a person or company who enforces patents against one or more alleged infringers in a manner considered aggressive or opportunistic with no intention to manufacture or market the patented invention.[/quote]
Think of him like the Batman of Patent Trolls.
[QUOTE=Paramud;38014446]Think of him like the Batman of Patent Trolls.[/QUOTE]
Great way to describe what he does
Even if they come up with DRM for 3d printing (which they will), every other DRM scheme in history has been cracked in a matter of hours. This would be no different.
Do they patent shapes and hand movements as well?
[QUOTE=Paramud;38014446]Think of him like the Batman of Patent Trolls.[/QUOTE]
His parents does? My heart goes out to him ;(
[QUOTE=Trogdon;38014685]His parents does? My heart goes out to him ;([/QUOTE]
Somebody patented his parents, so they took them away from him.
What caught my eye in the article is the MakerBot Replicator.
[url]http://store.makerbot.com/replicator2.html[/url]
For $2,199.00 that is quite affordable for a 3d printer.
[QUOTE=Paramud;38014446]Think of him like the Batman of Patent Trolls.[/QUOTE]
not the troll we want but the troll we need
Patent Hero
Until he sells it.
[QUOTE=paindoc;38014290]His company exists to file patents like this, they have something like 40,000 of them[/QUOTE]
Yeah, he hasn't gone after this to prevent people using it, he's gone after it to make money from people using it.
Patent trolls don't get money from people not using their patents, they get it from licensing them (Or suing if companies don't pay for access)
I'll just buy a 3D printer that doesn't have this 'feature' :P
[QUOTE=ash47;38015291]I'll just buy a 3D printer that doesn't have this 'feature' :P[/QUOTE]
Did you not read? He patented it so that nobody can make it a feature on the printer.
[QUOTE=BloodFox1222;38015307]Did you not read? He patented it so that nobody can make it a feature on the printer.[/QUOTE]
It's not about the printer, it's about the format. The article mentioned how it also covers "extrusion, ejection, stamping, die casting, printing, painting, and tattooing and with materials that include 'skin, textiles, edible substances, paper, and silicon printing.'"
[QUOTE=adam1172;38014737]What caught my eye in the article is the MakerBot Replicator.
[url]http://store.makerbot.com/replicator2.html[/url]
For $2,199.00 that is quite affordable for a 3d printer.[/QUOTE]
Pshh, $2200? Im building one that is more accurate, faster, and cheaper. Going to cost me $800 all said and done WITH Dual Extrusion.
Besides, the whole 3D printing community is pissed as hell at Makerbot Industries ATM. They took open source innovations, and made a company out of it. This was fine at first, because they kept all their original 3D printers open source as well. However, they made the Replicator 2 FULLY closed source and used many open source inventions in the product.
[QUOTE=Paramud;38014446]Think of him like the Batman of Patent Trolls.[/QUOTE]
He is not the hero we need RIGHT NOW, but he's the hero we deserve.
[QUOTE=paindoc;38015660]Pshh, $2200? Im building one that is more accurate, faster, and cheaper. Going to cost me $800 all said and done WITH Dual Extrusion.[/QUOTE]
How?
[QUOTE=BloodFox1222;38015307]Did you not read? He patented it so that nobody can make it a feature on the printer.[/QUOTE]
Not exactly, he still runs a patent company. It is likely that he will license companies that want to protect their products like Nike to do that with this patent and thus make a good deal of money. It's just a really clever patent troll business move, this is not necessarily a good thing for us.
[QUOTE=paindoc;38014227][url]http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429566/nathan-myhrvolds-cunning-plan-to-prevent-3-d/[/url]
Essentially, someone patented DRM for 3D printing so that a company in the future cannot shut it down. He plans to sue anyone that enacts DRM on 3D objects for 3D printing.
In short, this guy is awesome[/QUOTE]
This guy needs a nobel prize for peace in conclusion with peace among 3D Printing society.
How far is it possible to patent game DRM, or we're too late?
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