Cody Wilson to State Dept.: "We Win"

[Kirk Freeman]

Cody Wilson, point man on 3-D printing firearms, just gave the State Department the news.

Defense Distributed's Cody Wilson On Being Told To Remove 3-D Printed Gun Plans: "We Win" | Popular Science

 

[WileECoyotee]

It's going to be tough to stop all the downloads for these files from the internet .

In that sense Cody is right , " We Win ! " .

 

[Stickfight]

It's going to be impossible to stop all the downloads for these files from the internet .

That is more like it. Ask the RIAA. Ask the MPAA. Ask Barbara Streisand. Ask China.

 

[Double T]

Basically, he is right. It's not in violation of copyright infringement so they should lay off. It's technically not piracy, so I don't know what their objection to it is.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

ITAR.

 

[pudly]

So, if I understand correctly, no such information can be posted on the web for Americans because it might also be downloaded by people in other countries? So ITAR has brought a large measure of international censorship to our use of the web?

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Yes, remember, "this t-shirt is a weapon".