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The company behind this push is the company PRINTANDGO AM SOLUTIONS SL in Spain.

They describe their surveillance software in this blog post: https://printandgo.tech/blog/3d-gunt-solution-to-prevent-3d-printed-ghost-guns

And of course they are lying in the blog post, claiming that you can manufacture guns just with a 3d printer. No this is not true. It's way more complicated in reality.

3D printed guns are mostly a US thing because of the quirks of US gun legislation where vital parts are easy to buy without paperwork.

There is more to the 3D printer DRM surveillance push.

There is a company that designed a system for surveillance and DRM of 3d printers. And they are actively lobbying it to politicians and 3D printer manufacturers.

This is really bad and we need to started working against this. This company in based in Spain. So don't believe for one second that this is going to be a US thing only. I bet they are already lobbying big time in Brussels.

There is a video about it:
https://youtu.be/tGEVra9U91I

@commanderred @tthbaltazar Bill has not passed yet and it's currently just the state of Washington.

If Prusa is smart they will just stop selling their printers to that state and pitch in with lobbying against such laws

@tthbaltazar Yeah the bill makes that illegal. It's so fucked up.

@leah ja leider.

And the bill is written so broad that it also would apply to CNC mills, lathes, laser cutters, water jet cutters, etc. It applies to any type of automated additive or subtractive manufacturing.

It even requires the machines to do a check against a cloud service.

And building your own printer with marlin or some other open source solution? Congrats you have to pay a fine of a couple thousand dollars and/or will go to jail.

This is bad, really bad.

Remember the talk I purposed for #39c3 about the push for DRM, firmware lock-in and surveillance on 3D printers by gun control lobby groups in the name of preventing gun violence?

Well the first bill is here for exactly that. It requires manufactures of 3D printers to prevent the use of 3rd party firmware and the introduction of an algorithm that guesses if a print is a gun part and prevents the printer from printing in that case.

Louis Rossmann made a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-9ISzMhBM