
At the 34 minute mark, Cory explains how this may affect 3D printers:
In Alabama, it’s illegal to make, sell or possess a sex toy. That’s moderately regulatable in today’s environment, but what I want to know is, what happens when a Magistrate in Alabama in some local court decides that someone like Bre Pettis <of MakerBot Industries> who’s got a website where you can upload any plan for a 3D object and plug it into your printer and make it, is in essence trafficking sex toys into this guy’s jurisdiction by making them available over the internet where a 3D printer might output them.
While that’s an extreme (but likely to happen) example, Doctorow then describes several legitimate scenarios where regulation might be truly necessary. Conflicts such as these are perhaps inevitable and we suspect we’ll see the first of them sometime soon.
Via TVO