Anyone familiar with the history of 3D Systems knows they’re almost certainly not going to do any of the suggestions. When they introduced DRM to their material cartridges, they went and tried to by up the old systems that weren’t locked down. Over the years they have routinely sued their partners and competitors over perceived IP violations. And their commercial systems use similar (possibly identical) DRM, so they won’t give customers the means to bypass that DRM.
It’s an industry-wide problem, and it is starting to show strain more and more each year.
