How long until the "Home printing is killing the small parts manufacturing industry. (And it's illegal.)" campaign?
The universal response: "Fuck you I would if I could."
When the court system decides that Samsung can't make a phone that looks sort of like an iPhone, it's a good bet that courts will find that it's illegal to print, or assist printing of, a replica of some $megacorp object or part.
You know the part and can replicate its look... why not?
You wouldn't steal a cake, so why would you bake it?
Maybe I lack imagination, but I cannot imagine a plastic piece of junk that need to be tailor-made poorly.
When the cost of a PC went from $30k to $2k, most people couldn't see the revolution happening. Maybe I am the same fool.
I know a bunch of people printing off models of their characters from the game 'City of Heroes' (incidentally if you ever want to see how not to close a service, check out NC Soft's behaviour over the last couple of weeks) before the doors shut and a lot of them would probably pay a substantial amount for a slightly better quality painted one.