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Pirate Bay To Offer Physical Item Downloads
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.
That's the one thing I'm not sure of. I'm all for downloading one, but where can I get a VIN to make it street legal?
In most states you'll not be surprised to learn there is a form and a nominal fee to have the state assign you one.
Happens ALL the time for homemade custom boat trailers and to a much lesser extent homemade motorcycles and cars.
Its not usually much of an issue. "Red states" stereotypically seem to have a half page form and want like $5, "Blue states" stereotypically seem to have a 30 page form and want $100, but its always possible...
The biggest "problem" you'll encounter is most states have a certain location, size, and technique required to permanently deface the vehicle with the new VIN. Usually engraving a part of the frame meets the legal obligation, but how you engrave the frame ranges from "hold my beer and watch what I do with a dremel" all the way up to strange photoetching techniques.
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Sir, you win so many friggin' internets.
What is this, Slashdot for the illiterates? How about a link to the story, instead of some weird robot thing reading it for you? Still, at least we now have evidence that illiteracy actually is a job requirement for working at Slashdot...
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You cannot build a functional combustion engine out of any substance malleable enough to be usable by a cheap consumer-grade 3d printer.
Cars require metal parts, and metal parts require more powerful equipment to forge.
Ok, here you go.
Twitter-level knowledge does not entitle one to spread bullshit around.
You are talking about Â86 StGB, though you've almost certainly never heard about nor read it.
There is extensive literature on the reasoning behind, the legality of and the exceptions allowed by this Â. It is not that the shape is illegal. In fact, to this day you find the symbol in all kinds of places, embedded in architecture and the like. No one has ever gone to clean it up. It is also in public display at museums, in history books, etc. etc. etc.
But, you know, we kind of felt like not wanting to have the symbols of an evil cult that caused the death of some 50 mio. or so people around. The guys who wrote the law knew about trolls even though the Internet wasn't yet invented.
It's a good law and very few people inside Germany would want it removed. And to the best of my knowledge, nobody who isn't a Nazi has ever been convicted on it.
Oh, and before you start the usual bullshit about how the USA is so much better and has Free Speech, you should know one more detail about german history: Those early laws of the modern Germany were written shortly after the war, and were massively influenced by the Allies, mostly the Americans.
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