Talk:Bambu Lab Authorization Control System
I am not a bambu labs customer. I planned to be. But I spoke on their official facebook forum about a problem with a sunlu printer asking if anyone on there may know because the sunlu paths to help were fruitless. Immediately, people were crying that I had mentioned another printer brand and how that was irrelevant but I was pleading to the experts for a bit of help. Moments later, Bambu Lab staff banned me from the group. I binned the plan to become a customer right there. Some of the customer base and indeed the company, are toxic. Now I see this plan to own their customer base and I sure this is illegal with not logical reason - remember an airgapped network has only it's own security issues, one way traffic is a thing - except a poor excuse. Good luck in changing them. I dare say they will refuse all the way.
I am a year long anycubic customer and I feel vibes over there of ignorance and wonder what they plan on doing in the future.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.78.58.48 (talk • contribs) 18:07, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
A few things that should be added to the article:
- Bambu Lab published a press release from January 18, 2025 after all the heat they got from the initial blog post https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11wl_DqAbSLPVMLZ_8jhlz4lGPLGFQPcp
- And here's a Mastodon user saying that this auth control system is a "DMCA trap", he also mentions precedents in the 3D printing market of ChiTu and Stratasys https://mas.to/@zzt/113848144602929391
The ChiTu/Chirtubox issue seems to be referring to this https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/chitu-systems-and-chitubox-a-lesson-in-fighting-open-source-3d-printing-194783/
Stratatsys may be this event https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/stratasys-sues-bambu-lab-over-patents-used-widely-by-consumer-3d-printers/ — Lomanic (talk) 20:56, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
Not sure if its worth adding here but a draft complaint letter to the EU highlighting the consumer protection laws Bambu are likely violating has been posted here: https://old.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1i5lp86/eu_bambulab_customers_let_your_reps_deal_with_this/
RE: Citations
Some of the citations in here seem off, specifically with regard to the claims Bambu is making regarding the cyber attacks which prompted these changes. One article is about an attack on Anycubic printers exclusively , and the other is from 2018, several years before Bambu even released their first printer. I appreciate the desire to highlight bad business practices, but how is this relevant at all to Bambu?
- These articles were the ones Bambu themselves have linked in their bog post as examples of attacks they aim to prevent with this update. Kostas (talk) 14:08, 20 January 2025 (UTC)