Posted on 05/12/2013 3:23:29 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
The Pirate Bay now offering banned 3D-printed gun files The State Department has successfully demanded the removal of the files from Defcad. The Pirate Bay has picked up the slack.
For those who worry that even 24 hours without the ability to download 3D-printed gun blueprints is too much, fret no more: The Pirate Bay is on the case. On Thursday, the U.S. State Department successfully demanded the removal of a set of 3D-printed firearm files from Defcad, a file-sharing site run by Defense Distributed, the group at the center of the 3D-printed gun controversy.
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It’s not legal to ban a file, you miserable fockers. It’s also not legal to limit the size of toilet tanks.
These 3D printer things = closest thing to Star Trek replicators. Dayum!
I hope this doesn’t lead to AUNT Sam (the sex change was official in 2009) shutting down file sharing sites, which also wouldn’t be legal.
The copy I downloaded was a plain old zip file, scanned clean both with my local stuff and on VirusTotal, and did nothing crazy. As someone else pointed out in another thread, the file extension will default to being recognized as a certificate on some versions of Windows, but they’re not.
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