Pirate Bay To Offer Physical Item Downloads

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Pirate Bay To Offer Physical Item Downloads

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @04:39AM from the print-me-up-some-caltrops-please dept.

lukehopewell1 writes "The Pirate Bay is offering users the chance to download and print out real objects using 3D printers in what the pirate site is hailing as 'the future.'" Amir Taaki mentions that among the new "physibles" uploaded to the Pirate Bay are "plans for a tabletop replica for a Warhammer 40k dreadnought that got taken down in December with a DMCA request." Downloadable 3D models have been around for a while; MakerBot users are probably all familiar with the Thingiverse. Couple TPB with a cheap method of accurate 3D scanning, though, and I wonder what illegal shapes will emerge.

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Car by Rinisari · 2012-01-24 04:40 · Score: 4, Funny

I want to download a car!

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1. Re:Car by Sockatume · 2012-01-24 04:41 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You wouldn't, though.
  
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2. Re:Car by Samantha+Wright · 2012-01-24 04:42 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  You wouldn't!
  
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3. Re:Car by AngryDeuce · 2012-01-24 04:43 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Don't Copy That Jalopy!!
Wow... by AngryDeuce · 2012-01-24 04:42 · Score: 5, Funny

Those "You wouldn't download a car, would you?" warnings on the beginning of DVD's are going to be funny when people actually are downloading cars...
For the record, I totally would.
1. Re:Wow... by Arancaytar · 2012-01-24 05:55 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  It'll have twenty times the gas mileage of any commercial car and be completely impervious to theft, but steerable only via console commands.
  user@car$ left 30 user@car$ right 30 user@car$ speed 90 user@car$ braek braek: command not found user@car$ BRAKE BRAKE: command not found user@car$ brake The program 'brake' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install brake
  (Unless it's an Ubuntu car, in which case it will have a colorful and animated dashboard that will completely change form twice a year.)
2. Re:Wow... by mutube · 2012-01-24 06:52 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  (Unless it's an Ubuntu car, in which case it will have a colorful and animated dashboard that will completely change form twice a year.)
  And they'll change the order of the pedals.
  
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3D printers == sex toys industry by tekrat · 2012-01-24 04:45 · Score: 5, Funny

What's the first thing with any new tech? Porn! So, 3D printers will be used to make sex toys.

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1. Re:3D printers == sex toys industry by Dyinobal · 2012-01-24 04:59 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  So what next, DRM on a vibrator? Oh boy I bet that could get frustratingly interesting.
2. Re:3D printers == sex toys industry by Skarecrow77 · 2012-01-24 05:08 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  cheap 3d scanners would make this the next, frightening, landscape in "sexting".
  Not content to send each other pictures of their genitals, teens will soon be sending each other schematics for them.
3. Re:3D printers == sex toys industry by sootman · 2012-01-24 06:13 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  > 3D printers 8==D sex toys industry
  Fixed your subject for you.
  
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Fissible? by Fast+Thick+Pants · 2012-01-24 04:47 · Score: 3, Funny

I wanna download an A-bomb!
1. Re:Fissible? by robot256 · 2012-01-24 05:03 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I wanna download an A-bomb!
  Won't do you any good unless you can find a plutonium ink cartridge.
2. Re:Fissible? by Beardo+the+Bearded · 2012-01-24 05:07 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Still cheaper than HP's price on cyan.
  
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Not Turtles by Lectoid · 2012-01-24 04:48 · Score: 3, Funny

It's dildos all the way down.

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Malware? by AngryDeuce · 2012-01-24 04:49 · Score: 5, Funny

Download what is supposed to be a car, end up with a literal bag of dicks...this is gonna bring trolling to a whole new level!
1. Re:Malware? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-24 04:55 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Dickroll. I'm just gonna throw that out there.
Or, along this vein, What about a bust of by bdwoolman · 2012-01-24 04:58 · Score: 3, Funny

Rick Astley?

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Re:*Gazing into crystal ball* by AngryDeuce · 2012-01-24 05:07 · Score: 5, Funny

Or 3D portraits of Chris Dodd with the AACS encryption key below...
Not made in China! by na1led · 2012-01-24 05:07 · Score: 5, Funny

Wow, I can finally own stuff not made in China!

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3D Printer by Karlb · 2012-01-24 05:21 · Score: 3, Funny

I don't own a 3D printer, so I think the first item i'd download is one of them!

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Re:How would you register a downloaded car? by elrous0 · 2012-01-24 05:22 · Score: 5, Funny

"Blue states" stereotypically seem to have a 30 page form and want $100, but its always possible...
Yeah but 20 pages of that are questions like "How does this car effect the aura of the driver?" and "Is there any possibility that this car could create a hostile work environment for a LGBT or minority?"

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Re:How would you register a downloaded car? by SuricouRaven · 2012-01-24 06:25 · Score: 4, Funny

In order to balance out the force of partisan jokes, I ask of the red state forms include 'Does it have holders for beer and shotgun?' and 'Does it run on almighty Texas Tea, or Pathetic Lieberal 'Leccy?'

Yours are funnier though. Bah. I need more tea to make jokes well.
Re:Tea. by Carnildo · 2012-01-24 09:13 · Score: 3, Funny

And you'll get a cupful of liquid that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

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