It's just a tool, right? (Score 1)

Maybe I'm over simplifying this a bit (or a lot) but couldn't you compare this to selling virtually any kind of tool that makes it possible to do something illegal?

I mean, making guns isn't illegal, even though guns kill thousands of people a year, and are used in even more crimes than that. Cars are built that can go 140+ mph, yet there few places in the US where going that speed wouldn't be illegal. Does that mean that car and gun makers could be sued for making a product that CAN help a person break the law?

Just making a bit of code (which DOES, from what I've read here, have legal uses) wouldn't be a crime, right? They would actually have to use the program to break the law before they could be prosecuted. I would assume. Of course, I'm not a lawyer. In then end, however, none of this really matters. We're talking about a multi-billion dollar industry. They're GOING to win, eventually. What really needs to be done is to change the laws. But WE all know that. Maybe we should tell someone?

-T.J.

"Now really, Ms. Gross, I think it's a mistake for you to assume you're talking to a moron" - Oh, Lord!