What is it with people who supposedly deal with data for a living that leads them to think it can be suppressed? It's 1's and 0's, guys, and it's already out there. And it isn't "lawless" any more than sharing a Facebook post is.
It's legal to design a firearm. It's legal to share that design. It's legal to make your own firearm. It's legal to own and operate your own routers, lathes, milling machines, and the like. It's legal to purchase materials such as steel and aluminum that might (shudder!) be made into something. And it's legal to share information. There isn't anything scary about it. What is scary is people who would construct a police state and take technology back a millennium to soothe their hysterical fears.
Well, legal here - not in the UK.
While I agree it’s just “bits and bytes” flying around the internet, you could say that about other illegal material, like child porn.
Impossible to stop though.
The lunatics in the Maryland General Asylum (legislature) proposed banning the possession of 3d gun computer files this year.
I sent a letter to my lunatic telling him what a great idea that was, after he can show me one thing in the history of the world that has been un-invented.