Posted on 05/10/2013 9:37:36 AM PDT by BerserkPatriot
A few days after the blueprints for the world’s first printable gun were published online, Defense Distributed has been asked by the State Department to pull them down, citing possible arms trafficking violations. The blueprints, however, are still available on The Pirate Bay and many other file-sharing sites, which adds a 3D chapter to the IP enforcement debate.The Pirate Bay says it welcomes the blueprints and has no intention of taking the files down.
Enter DEFCAD, a site dedicated to hosting designs that have been banned at Thingiverse. Namely, the entirely printable 3D gun design which clocked up more than 100,000 downloads within its first two days of release.
This did not sit well with the Department of State Office of Defense Trade Controls who kindly requested that DEFCAD remove the availability of the 3D printable gun documents, enthusiastically named “The Liberator,” citing a possible violation of International Traffic in Arms Regulations.
In the letter from the State Department, which can be read in full at Forbes, the Government explains that it wants to review whether the designs are in compliance with arms export control laws. ... While DEFCON promptly complied with the request to remove access to the design, it was shared so widely during the short window of availability that it is now virtually impossible to prevent any further distribution. Currently, there appears to be several torrents available for the design at The Pirate Bay and the site informs us that these will not be censored.
“TPB has for close to 10 years been operating without taking down one single torrent due to pressure from the outside. And it will never start doing that,” A Pirate Bay insider told TorrentFreak.
(Excerpt) Read more at torrentfreak.com ...
I’m not so sure I am being distraught over losing all in a boating accident… sigh.
This file is also available on bit torrent and dozens (if not hundreds by now) of mirror sites. The toothpaste is out of the tube and they are not going to get it back in.
It’s ok, now you can just print a new one. :)
can someone tell me how a print out of a gun is arms trafficking??
Perhaps your new plastic guns will float?
It's trafficking when we say it's trafficking, citizen.
By what authority do they "request" that a file be removed while they are deciding whether that file violates export laws? Those currently in charge of what was supposed to be a "government of the people" disgust me.
Apparentlyl the gov’t is treating it as a technology transfer. And there is a law on the books that they are pointing to.
I lost the pdf in a boating accident. Don’t ask.
but it still isnt a working gun
so if I transfer technology of a water pistol is that arms trafficking??
I used to have the file but I lost it in a virtual boating accident.
The 100K downloaded yesterday is probably closer to 100Million worldwide today solely due to the government’s attempt to censor. Just like when an authority attempts to ban a book, it becomes a best seller.
You would think they would have learned a long time ago.
One of these days, the government may just yet learn that you can’t control information once it’s been released into the wild. I won’t hold my breathe waiting, though.
can someone tell me how a print out of a gun is arms trafficking??
It’s trafficking when we say it’s trafficking, citizen.
You screwed up, it isn’t “Citizen” it is “Prisoner”...
EXPORT CONTROL WARNING “This document may contain technical data that is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) controls and may not be exported or otherwise disclosed to any foreign person or firm, whether in the US or abroad, without first complying with all requirements of the ITAR, 22 CFR 120-130, including the requirement for obtaining an export license if applicable. In addition, this document may contain technology that is subject to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and may not be exported or otherwise disclosed to any non-U.S. person, whether in the US or abroad, without first complying with all requirements of the EAR, 15 CFR 730-774, including the requirement for obtaining an export license if applicable. Violation of these export laws is subject to severe criminal penalties.”
The law, and the attendant regulations, is so poorly written that basically anyone who pisses off the State Department can suffer a severe change in their lifestyle for alleged ITAR violations. Passing off a technical specifications document freely available via Google from anywhere in the world is enough for them to send you into Federal Court where the conviction rate is North of 95%.
LMAO!
I wonder how long before the offer a printable ARRRRRRRR-15?
I was going to post a program to print out a nuclear bomb. But I need to make one final test print and my glow-in-the-dark print cartridge is low. Anyone have a spare? It’s the one in the heavy lead pouch. Maybe a U-235?
What ‘technology’ could they be talking about?
The irony of a regime known for it’s Guns for Gangsters program couldn’t be any thicker.
I’m not sure about them going after folks though, that would be like the IRS going after Conservative groups…. Oh wait…
It's too bad we didn't have these CrackerJack Inspector Clouseau types when Billy Jeff Buttafuco was trading Technology secrets to the Chinese for campaign cash...
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