Home 3D printers are bringing manufacturing closer to its Napster moment, presenting the same dilemma to patent holders that record companies and movie studios faced a decade ago: in a world where anybody can download your product off the Internet, how do you get paid for your intellectual property?
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Objects manufactured by 3D printers stand on display at the Stratasys Ltd. factory in Rehovot, Israel, on July 28, 2013. Stratasys Ltd., a Minnesota company that owns New York-based Makerbot, is a leading force in the growing 3D movement. Ariel Jerozolimski/Bloomberg