That argument has been going on for decades, and has had few victories in the court system. The DMCA, which prohibits trafficking in anticircumvention devices, even though there's a lot of code in them, is still alive and well.

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lrvick 2 days ago | parent [-]

And the DMCA has been rightfully weakened to the point that archive.org has every Nintendo Gamecube game ever made hosted for the public, for years, uncontested.

So too will these other silly laws go I expect.

	▲	iamnothere 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Not only that, but people like myself are working on underground distribution networks in case they’re ever needed. Absolute worst case we’ll do sneakernet. More likely we’ll just distribute via overlay networks. Some of us are crazy enough to be full on free speech martyrs, believe it or not.