I don’t think California intends to act in bad faith and try to kill the 3D printer industry (or community). I think this is due to misconceptions similar to the notion that one can create encryption with a backdoor that only the good guys can use. It just doesn’t math.
And that’s exactly what is going to kill the law in the courts, much the way that they’ve upheld strong encryption and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Allowing the law to come into effect will cause too much damage to industry and the economy.
Granted I can’t be absolutely certain of that. We’ve had a lot of incompetent (or corrupt) judges get confirmed in recent decades, so really anything can happen. But the thing they don’t want is what happened after they tried to criminalize printed gun designs in the first place, and see the already-robust 3D printing underground get another growth boost.
They’ll ask chatgpt to generate it. It doesn’t need to be viable, it just needs to be impossible for manufacturers to comply with
I don’t think California intends to act in bad faith and try to kill the 3D printer industry (or community). I think this is due to misconceptions similar to the notion that one can create encryption with a backdoor that only the good guys can use. It just doesn’t math.
And that’s exactly what is going to kill the law in the courts, much the way that they’ve upheld strong encryption and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Allowing the law to come into effect will cause too much damage to industry and the economy.
Granted I can’t be absolutely certain of that. We’ve had a lot of incompetent (or corrupt) judges get confirmed in recent decades, so really anything can happen. But the thing they don’t want is what happened after they tried to criminalize printed gun designs in the first place, and see the already-robust 3D printing underground get another growth boost.