Gun manufacturing equipment is not prohibitive. Zip guns and 3-d printers facilitate it.
Drug production for cocaine, heroin, cannabis and others is as simple as a garden.
Not that I agree the kid should be arrested. I simply perceive the feasibility of software prohibition via government license to be as effective as it is for guns and drugs.
>I simply perceive the feasibility of software prohibition via government license to be as effective as it is for guns and drugs.
In other words, not effective at all against the people you're attempting to target (criminals) and only negatively affecting the people who don't deserve or need to be targeted (law abiding citizens)?
Do you mean sales of the software itself? There's no way that could work. Secretly transferring a bitstring is one of the easiest things to do. At best you could catch the money laundering.
> Drug production for cocaine, heroin, cannabis and others is as simple as a garden.
I was thinking of drugs in general. Including for example antibiotics and cancer drugs. AFAIK, practically no one knows how to make stuff like that.
> Do you mean sales of the software itself? There's no way that could work.
Loaning a gun is even easier, but it seems regulated too. I've seen a friend verbally say in front of others that he was transferring full ownership a gun when a friend asked to borrow one for the range because that's what the laws of his state required (WA). He then informed his friend that he would certainly appreciate the gun being transferred back in a week but he had no recourse if not.
Gun manufacturing equipment is not prohibitive. Zip guns and 3-d printers facilitate it.
Drug production for cocaine, heroin, cannabis and others is as simple as a garden.
Not that I agree the kid should be arrested. I simply perceive the feasibility of software prohibition via government license to be as effective as it is for guns and drugs.