Another State signed a law that made it illegal to possess a digital file... based on what the government thinks you intended to do with it. No victim. No crime committed. Just a file on your hard drive and a prosecutor's interpretation of your intent.
This isn't about one state. New Jersey signed the same framework into law in January. California did it in October 2025. New York has it sitting inside the governor's budget bill right now, and they want to require 3D printers to scan every file before it prints.
In 1995, a mathematician named Daniel Bernstein proved in federal court that code is speech. The Ninth Circuit agreed. The government conceded the argument again in 2018 when the DOJ settled with Defense Distributed and paid their legal fees.
They already lost this argument. Twice. And yet here we are.
This video is about the legal architecture they just built, what it actually says, what they stripped out before signing it, and why it doesn't stay pointed where they're aiming it.
#3DPrinting #righttorepair #digitalfreedom
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPHguJcz0-c