Seeking scifi short story about 3D printing

November 10, 2010 10:12 AM

I am trying to find a short science fiction story I read sometime in the last five years. It was about 3-D printing and/or self-replicating machines.

I dimly remember it's about some rogue loner who is disseminating the plans for 3-D printers, or the plans for patented objects, in defiance of the IP holders. There may be IP thugs who come after him.

May or may not be Sterling, Stross, Doctorow, or the other MeFi regulars.

posted by everichon to Media & Arts (6 answers total)

This sounds like a story from Cory's "A Place So Foreign" short story collection. I think.
posted by bitterkitten at 10:13 AM on November 10, 2010

Best answer: Doctorow: Print Crime
posted by aimedwander at 10:15 AM on November 10, 2010

Response by poster: Boom! Thanks very much.
posted by everichon at 10:21 AM on November 10, 2010

Best answer: aime is right. I was wrong about the book tho, - it's from "Overclocked".

http://craphound.com/overclocked/
posted by bitterkitten at 10:21 AM on November 10, 2010

Sounds like it isn't it, but Kiosk by Bruce Sterling is extremely similar.
posted by Artw at 10:53 AM on November 10, 2010

Ack, for the first time I have the answer to one of these questions, and I'm too late.
posted by Tooty McTootsalot at 11:04 AM on November 10, 2010