[mellis]

For more details, see "It Will Be Awesome if They Don't Screw it Up: 3D Printing" by Michael Weinberg: http://www.publicknowledge.org/it-will-be-awesome-if-they-do...

[brohee]

Also "Rule 34" by Charles Stross is a pretty good novel about some of the consequences of personal 3D printing being pushed underground by regulation.

[GenericAlias]

Don't forget "Makers" by Cory Doctorow, which discusses some of the legal implications of personal 3D printing as both an attraction and as a way of cheaply producing a variety of things. http://craphound.com/makers/download/

[Sukotto]

Also Cory Doctorow's 2007 short story "Printcrime"

http://craphound.com/?p=573