I think i am ready to say that i have the assessment from the company lawyer. The whole 7 pages of it (in German).
To be really honest i thought that Bambu Lab would have more leverage than what i was hoping for but reading through it all made me rethink everything that has been going on on this topic. And boy oh boy, there will be much to discuss.
Unfortunately i can’t disclose it all due to the laws of the country i live in (GPDR is taken serious in Germany). Other reasons for not being able to disclose it all is also due to the client-lawyer agreement and because of certain ruling decisions already made in the past, behind curtains. I can’t and i won’t disclose any past ruling and i am not saying there is or were any “behind the curtain” agreement out of court in regards to Bambu. So that it is clear in the eyes of Bambu Lab. That is something that only they, and their clients, can disclose.
What i can do, and i will, is offer to disclose a quick assessment (1 page), with the authorization from the company lawyer, about what he assessed if the case would go to court. Will need some time since it’s all written in German and i don’t want to sent it to any online platform for translation due to the data being collected. I will post it in a few hours, after checking for the right translation and checking that everything is ok.
As a reminder, the developer in question lives in the EU and as such, this assessment is regarding EU laws and directives, being the US law cited by Bambu Lab (punished with federal prison in the US) not even possible to be used in EU court of law. For those of you in the US i am sorry but i will not pay for a US lawyer just to make you happy.
I will also state that this topic is being heavily monitored by certain parts. This does not apply to Bambu only, but to every other company and manufacturer.
What i don’t get is that people are making confusion about the Bambu love and hate and, as said before, and derailing the topic completely. Many refer to the brand as if they are the reborn of Jesus Christ. Others see the Devil in every comment. While that is a harsh statement, it’s the truth.
I can speak for myself only, but i will say it as i said before. I love Bambu machines but i hate what they have become after having grown from the community. I am not an “open source” advocate but i can see the right where the right is due.
I keep reading the same half a dozen people that always try and defend the brand they love, almost constantly, without even thinking ahead or how it looks when others read it.
I also keep reading that these machines are/want to be, the Apple of 3D and not for tinkerers and yet, when Bambu asks you (no, they demand you to…) to do self repairs, what do you do? You tinker with it because tinkering is repairing, perfecting, analyzing and make it better. So what’s your status after all? Are you a tinkerer or not? Ah, the duality of Man…
Then i see the same thing over and over again, topics being closed sooner than they should and always because some user (and almost always the same ones) goes in, says nothing useful, leave the bait and leaves the topic for a while. Only coming back when called to reason or confronted and when that happens, everyone that disagrees with him is wrong. Then starts rage baiting everyone until there is nothing more to discuss except for rage. Then the topic gets closed. For what?!
Then there are those who were born long before the internet had been created that also can’t understand that they could be wrong and that their beliefs are not what they seem. Writing “You have no legal standing” does not make you right but it makes you arrogant. My way or no way. This is not how it works nor should it be.
There are disabled people, there are people with one hand only, blind people, deaf people and much more. It does not make them right just by having that disability. In my eyes if a person uses their disability as a strong point in such actual discussions, that point is not valid anymore.
And then there are those who got to the point they are today, well known in Makerworld, making a buck every month, only seeing what they get from the platform. I get it that having thousands of downloads, a few thousand Dollars/Euros every month tastes good and that it was that brand that made it possible. But just because you got it right and others didn’t, it does not mean that only your effort and opinion should be recognized.
This is a forum, created not for support but for discussing themes related to 3D printing and mostly Bambu stuff. There will be times where people will agree and times where people will disagree. But that is the point.
It’s not only about Bambu. It’s about Creality, it’s about Flashforge, it’s about Qidi and every other manufacturer you can think of. It’s not letting any company create a precedent. It’s about letting your kids be bullied one time, then two and then try and stop it when it’s already too late because you let it happen and now it’s your kid that pays for it.
I would not like to wake up tomorrow with my hole burning, knowing that i was the cause for it to burn (i think you can get the analogy). I want to wake up knowing that i will be able to seat without pain. I want to wake up knowing that my rights, as a consumer, are being respected. It’s not about “i want”, it’s about “it should be that way” and, like it or not, there are people that still care about consumer rights.
So no, i won’t self repair any machine, be it from Bambu or not, if a warranty exist for 2 years. I will accept any TOS with a click of a button because companies want me to do it but their TOS has no value in Europe since the law comes first.
This is about tomorrow. This is about Apple having USB C as a standard for a reason. About having alternative stores for the same reason. Because the consumer has the right to choose what to do with that they have paid and not the other way around.
I am truly sorry for the long text but this gets tiring and seeing the actual armchair lawyers in this topic being completely wrong has made me smile after reading the assessment. At least there’s that.
As said before, i will try and translate the best i can and will follow up later. As always, have a great weekend and…
”Be civil” 
“who is paid by bambu” can be factually answered by if you have a makerworld account that posts anything to participate in their attention economy. thats a lot of people. That vector of compensation would probably be enough to invalidate your jury service, if it were a trial.
