Maker6 is new player in 3d model sharing, marketplace and 3d printer services discovery space

Maker6 is new player in 3d model sharing, marketplace and 3d printer services discovery space. You will be able to sell your printing services and models you designed.


http://www.maker6.com/

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3D Hubs

3D Hubs - Local 3D Printing from 3D Hubs on Vimeo.
3D Hubs (http://3dhubs.com) provides a collaborative production platform for makers and 3D printer owners.
Using our platform, anyone with a 3D printer can bring customized, locally produced goods to those around them. Together, we are building communities that want to share the fun of making 3D printed products, while igniting a new industrial revolution in the process. test

Join our movement on http://3dhubs.com

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New 3d printing category on Piratebay

As I was browsing The Pirate Bay today I'v noticed new category: Physibles 
It is all about real world objects and 3d printing related files.
At this time it has only four entries, but I'm sure it will grow as the 3d printing goes mainstream. Intellectual property rights issues related to 3d objects will be interesting to observe ....

http://thepiratebay.org/blog/203
From the blog:

Evolution: New category.

We're always trying to foresee the future a bit here at TPB. One of the things that we really know is that we as a society will always share. Digital communication has made that a lot easier and will continue to do so. And after the internets evolutionized data to go from analog to digital, it's time for the next step.

Today most data is born digitally. It's not about the transition from analog to digital anymore. We don't talk about how to rip anything without losing quality since we make perfect 1 to 1 digital copies of things. Music, movies, books, all come from the digital sphere. But we're physical people and we need objects to touch sometimes as well!

We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years.

The benefit to society is huge. No more shipping huge amount of products around the world. No more shipping the broken products back. No more child labour. We'll be able to print food for hungry people. We'll be able to share not only a recipe, but the full meal. We'll be able to actually copy that floppy, if we needed one.

We believe that the future of sharing is about physible data. We're thinking of temporarily renaming ourselves to The Product Bay - but we had no graphical artist around to make a logo. In the future, we'll download one.

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