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Originally Posted by polak
The machine isn't VW's. It's a public machine that can duplicate ANYTHING.
A proper comparison would be your friend, lending you HIS VW that he OWNS and letting you run it through the public duplication machine, which again, can duplicate ANYTHING.
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Originally Posted by pylon
Did VW willingly give you the password to start the machine and make free Beetles?
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My 2 cents.
The way I see it, imagine the duplication machine works by figuring out how break down the object duplication to it's basic materials. The metal, plastic, organic, inorganic (or even at the subatomic level) and is able to put together a step by step to build a duplicate. The machine then utilizes a billion mini workers who take your own basic materials and hammers out the structures required to assembly a complete copy of a VW beetle.
This is essentially how file sharing works. The movie or media is recreated from the 1s and 0s of the original source material. Nothing is stolen if the original source material was acquired through legal means. Similarly as if I borrowed my friends car to use as a model so I can forge my own metal, plastic, and other materials to build an exact copy. VW can't sue me if I built my own car (unless I sold it as if it was from VW).
DRM in this case would be if VW inserted a special code that scrambled the assembly instructions so the machine could not put together a duplicate.