Access to 3-D Guns Blocked in PA

[lts1ow]

The premise behind this and what it would take is laughable. I don’t think they realIze what they are trying to do is virtually impossible

See NJ AG, wasting NJ tax payer money to protect us from ourselves. Or something.

[SIGFAN86]

Easiest way around it at the moment is to use your phone as a tether. They didn't block the site on the cellular network

[bmwaudio]

USE A VPN AND GET AROUND THIS. ALSO CAN WE SUE PA FOR THIS? THIS IS ILLEGAL. I am more than happy to kick money in. in the mean time, go get a free VPN, I use a good paid one, but this is easy peasy to get around

[Krichardson]

The way I read it the Philadelphia Federal Court is banning ONLY this single company "Defense Distributed" from distributing these open source files to Pennsylvania. The ban does not legally block the rest of the country from sharing these same files to PA; nor does it ban the state residents from acquiring these files. Seems odd to me that a single company is banned from an action that the rest of the country can legally participate in. Either way as of Wednesday unless something federally bans everyone from distributing the files anywhere, these files are available to everyone! And I had no interest in this previously but ready and willing to participate in the file sharing now just cause this pisses me off...

Well said,and agreed.

USE A VPN AND GET AROUND THIS. ALSO CAN WE SUE PA FOR THIS? THIS IS ILLEGAL. I am more than happy to kick money in. in the mean time, go get a free VPN, I use a good paid one, but this is easy peasy to get around

Imagine that.....the top law officials in the state,and the courts engaging in illegal activity!

[fallenleader]

https://www.proxysite.com/
there's a free web proxy
https://defcad.com/
there is the url
when making an account, obviously don't use your bank password. random free proxy found on google likely to scrape your info.
even google's translate will provide access in a language of your choice up to the signup page where it blinks out as already english.
if you're using something like a vpn to a server somewhere else, you also aren't blocked.
then there are torrents and the countless torrent sites which should still be legal to use for non copyrighted content. no different than downloading your favorite linux distro.

i'm pissed and aug 1 will have these files... with absolutely no use for them other than i was told no.

[NShortino]

For any of you that reddit, r/firearms has a handful of posts with links for the defense distributed files and others.

[borekfk]

Here's one with all of the files:

https://github.com/maduce/fosscad-repo

Glad to know that Shapiro and Wolf think that 1984 was an instruction manual.

[archie19]

I thought it was the PA House and PA Senate that were responsible for making legislation????

[borekfk]

I thought it was the PA House and PA Senate that were responsible for making legislation????

It's all the rage these days for courts to legislate from the bench. This one is from 8 months ago and it still rings true.

[dunno]

https://defcad.com/ is the blocked URL, it's easy enough to get around but of course its more about the point that is was blocked to begin with.
451: We're sorry, but DEFCAD has been blocked in your location.