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Secret 3D scans in the French Supreme Court

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771 points abetusk | 1 comments | 18 Oct 24 08:50 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Jyaif ◴[18 Oct 24 11:31 UTC] No.41878393[source]▶
> in private, RMN admits it won’t release its scans because it wants to protect its gift shops’ sales revenue from competition from the public making their own replicas.

Sounds like a pretty good reason

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1. poizan42 ◴[18 Oct 24 12:23 UTC] No.41878741[source]▶
As if it would be more difficult to just buy the thing from the gift shop and make copies of that. With a physical object you can make molds directly from that without having to figure out how to turn a point-cloud file into a physical object.

It's a pretty bad argument even besides the lack of legal relevance.