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"The Pirate Bay has launched a new section on its website offering &amp;quot;physibles&amp;quot;, digital files that can assume a physical form by using a 3D printer. The Swedish-based file sharing site said that &amp;quot;the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form&amp;quot;. Its new section is therefore a place to download and share 3D object models that can be physically printed out in three dimensions.  In a blog post, the website said: &amp;quot;Today most data is born digitally. It&amp;#039;s not about the transition from analogue to digital anymore. We don&amp;#039;t talk about how to rip anything without losing quality since we make perfect 1 to 1 digital copies of things. &amp;quot;Music, movies, books, all come from the digital sphere. But we&amp;#039;re physical people and we need objects to touch sometimes as well!&amp;quot; It added: &amp;quot;We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. &amp;quot;Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step.  &amp;quot;We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare parts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Finnish anti-piracy group in bomb threat after the Pirate Bay block The Pirate Bay believes that this would have &amp;quot;huge&amp;quot; benefits to society, such as downloading and printing out products, rather than buying them online and having the cost and environmental impact of shipping to an address.  &amp;quot;No more shipping the broken products back. No more child labour. We&amp;#039;ll be able to print food for hungry people. We&amp;#039;ll be able to share not only a recipe, but the full meal. We&amp;#039;ll be able to actually copy that floppy, if we needed one,&amp;quot; they said.  &amp;quot;We believe that the future of sharing is about &amp;#039;physible&amp;#039; data. We&amp;#039;re thinking of temporarily renaming ourselves to The Product Bay - but we had no graphical artist around to make a logo. In the future, we&amp;#039;ll download one.&amp;quot; The service launched last month, suitably offering a pirate ship as its first object. A stylus for a touchscreen phone, a cowboy hat and a Tri-Force necklace from the Legend of Zelda video game series have since been posted. TorrentFreak has published a picture of the copied 3D pirate ship after it was printed by Canadian Charles Randall. Currently, 3D printers are predominantly the domain of enthusiasts and professionals, but improvements in the technology could accelerate the market, particularly if more files become available online for reproducing objects. Today, it was reported that a 3D printer-created lower jaw had been fitted to the face of an 83-year-old woman in a first-of-a-kind operation, according to BBC News.  The transplant, conducted in The Netherlands last June but only revealed now, involved a 3D-printed implant made of titanium powder being used on the woman, who was suffering with chronic bone infection deemed too advanced for reconstructive surgery. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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