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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Re:Car by The+MAZZTer · 2012-01-24 04:42 · Score: 5, Interesting

Yes, yes I would.
Re:How would you register a downloaded car? by betterunixthanunix · 2012-01-24 04:52 · Score: 5, Interesting

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?
This is the least of your concerns -- people do build their own cars in garages and there are procedures in place to register those cars. The real problem with downloading a car is that Detroit will join Hollywood in attacking new technologies rather than updating their business model.

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