[p2p-research] CAD files at The PIrate Bay? (Follow up)

[Kevin Carson]

It just occurred me, but isn't the whole question of file-sharing
patented designs only of interest to a fairly limited subset of the
Making movement?  Given (literally) a micromanufacturing economy of
100,000 small shops with CNC tools, it seems pretty unlikely that
patents would even enter into the picture for a garage manufacturer
serving a market area of a few thousand people.  After all, securing a
patent is extremely expensive and takes a long time.  It probably
wouldn't even be worth it for someone not engaged in large-batch
manufacturing.

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