The big bugbear that everyone is dreading on the horizon isn't copyrights/patents, it's copy protection. Even though DRM on movies, music, games etc. is easily circumvented if you know what you're doing, it's at least there. But a cheap 3D scanner made from a laser pointer and some tape could ostensibly make a virtual copy (and then a real copy with a 3D printer) of almost any physical object imaginable, and there is currently no physical way to prevent that or at even make it difficult.
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