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After being enjoined from distributing 3D CAD Files of firearms from his website, DEFCAD.com, Cody Wilson announces plans to sell the files for any chosen price.
In other words: If he can't be the "Napster" of crypto-guns, he'll be the "iTunes," Wilson told reporters at a press conference Tuesday in Austin.
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Josh Blackman, Wilson's lawyer, said in an interview Tuesday that selling the blueprints directly to people within the United States is perfectly legal."It's not about distribution, it's about posting them," Blackman said. "There's no prohibition on distributing these files — the prohibition is on doing it in a way that foreign persons can access."
Also at The Register, BBC, and Ars Technica.
Previously: Federal Judge Imposes Preliminary Injunction Against Defense Distributed's DEFCAD
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @08:02AM (2 children)
It is so funny that jmorris thinks that running a CNC milling machine is just like sending a file to a machine that squirts out droplets of molten plastic! Machinists, and gunsmiths, unlike conservatives, actually have to know stuff, rather than just going off about it. "Spray and pray" is not about spittle, but it is just as effective, either way. Which is to say, "not".
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Wednesday August 29 2018, @03:30PM
Machinists and gunsmiths tend to be conservative or libertarian more often than not.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Wednesday August 29 2018, @04:20PM
CNC machines and 3D printers both use g-code, you can send a file to either machine. They both require regular maintenance and calibration, you can't just indefinitely send files to either machine and expect reasonable results. I think you're either overestimating the difficulty of running a CNC machine, underestimating the difficulty of running a 3D printer, or both.
Please don't make me defend jmorris again, it hurts.