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I saw you mentioned that I gave my opinion why I think that is not a viable option happening. The problem is you will need this in the Hardware sold, and for those, there is no industry standard body, as most of the tech is open source based.  And I don’t see users buying any 3d printers supporting DRM. I certainly will not, for the simple reason that this usually just causes usability issues for the end user, especially if there is more than one standard and hardware developing fast.

It was different for physical media like DVD and VHS and nowadays BlueDisc, and for mp3 it only works with iTunes as they use their own music file standard, they’re dirt cheap and there is free or almost free streaming alternatives, same with movies.

I think if a monthly subscription service would be set up which allows you to download files, similar to audible or a service like iTunes, that could work but you would have to have a central service and then a creator of a file will probably not earn more than a  few Cents per file, which would make it unviable for most Miniature companies, as they just not have a big enough customer basis.