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[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 hours ago

It’s in the executive budget bill?

Also. Now? With the fasch running amok? Are you kidding?

How about a ‘friends of epstiene should be jailed bill’ or no ICE in NY bill? No? Instead a…. 3d printers need heuristics to detect gun parts in the budget bill bill… okay.

[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

Pretty sure this will only affect 3D printing businesses. It will be very hard to enforce for individuals

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

It's a good post. I'm not in the US, so will take their word for it on the details.

Good intentions, it seems, but classic thin-end-of-the-wedge territory. IP holders must be rubbing their hands with glee.

As with the US DMCA, I can easily see this DRM expanding to include patterns and blueprints of patented items so "Blocked: This file's characteristics seem to match a patent/IP owned by Ford" (or Apple, Hasbro, John Deere, etc) will almost certainly follow quickly.

And as with the UK Child Safety Act, even poorly written, unfit for purpose laws can expand rapidly. It went from "age verification on adult sites" to "...and all VPNs" in mere months, and is heading to "age verify everything!" if they get their way.

[–] beelzebum@lemmy.world 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 1 points 7 hours ago

Control, alterate and, eventually, delete it!