Someone will always find a way around this stuff. For good or bad, just like the great Metallica vs Napster war foretold the coming of streaming, and in the end, corporations will make all their money, and artists get screwed. Metallica wasn’t wrong.

Hate this sort of thing. I had an Epson printer that refused to work with cheap cartridges… had to be epson only. It’s why I have a black and white laser now.

My Lumix digital camera with chargeable battery can use ‘other brand’ batteries. Friend bought the newer model of camera a few years later and found that it would only accept Lumix batteries that cost four, or five times more.

Mobile phones have built in batteries now so you can’t replace them yourself.

Contrary to what was said in the movie Wall Street by Gordon Gecko… “Greed is not good!”

Bambu Labs and ‘open’ ?

nah, that’s never the impression I got from them.
The way they push their ‘cloud based’ solution for ‘sharing’ designs has always made me feel like they were one step away from pulling a stunt like this. I want a printer that prints when I want it and how I want it. I do not want a device that needs to ask permission from the big server in the sky to do its job.

Other brands appear to either have designs based on ‘open source’ constructs or embrace that aspect by letting their customers modify everything in their printers.

I’m soo not surprised that this is being sold as a ‘security’ feature either.
When companies can’t blame piracy they use that as an excuse to limit our options as owners of the devices we buy from them.

Only thing I can understand is that they’d want to limit warranty when devices use non-standard firmware or upgrades.
But that’s because it’s easier to diagnose faults when you can either rule out software issues or at least compare said issues with a regular production model.

It’s sad to see a company with printers that are as close to plug&play as these do things like this.
They were the one option I was considering …

I wonder if this is a possible response to the recent news from the USA where they want background checks for users because the morons think these things can print viable firearms.

Keep in mind that ordinary 2D printers and copiers already have built-in restrictions that prevent them from printing/copying money. I suspect that as 3D printing becomes easier to use and more widespread we will see similar stupidity enforced.

https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/security-incidents-cloud-traffic?ref=blog.bambulab.com

This is the actual reason. Their cloud-services can’t handle the amount of “unauthorized” traffic that’s happening.
It’s not about actual security that affects end-users.
It’s about them trying to find excuses for their sh!ttty design.

I’ve seen this happen with home automation as well were certain companies would use ‘security’ as an excuse when in reality their software was overloading their servers.

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