Electronic Frontier Foundation
3D Print-blocking laws hand monopolistic power to manufacturers and can criminalize open source alternatives. We need to reject these onerous restraints on creation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/print-blocking-anti-consumer-permission-print-part-1
Print Blocking is Anti-Consumer - Permission to Print Part 1

When legislators give companies an excuse to write untouchable code, it’s a disaster for everyone. This time, 3D printers are in the crosshairs across a growing number of states. Even if you’ve never used one, you’ve benefited from the open commons these devices have created—which is now under threat. We need to roundly reject these onerous restraints on creation.

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Is this another case of US legislation that if enacted would be globalised like Copyright, DRM & right to repair limitations. I wonder, given the Tangerine Man Baby's imposition of tarrifs and Cory Doctorow's (@pluralistic ) excellent idea to use these trade agreement breaches to roll back on these DRM monopolistic US legal impositions, whether greedy US corporations might now be whistling in the wind?