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Cody Rutledge Wilson,
Aged 27
Born Little Rock, Arkansas USA
Cody is best known for his
non-profit organization called Defence Distributed. The company develops and
publishes open source gun designs and accessories, also known as
“wiki-weapons”. Initially they gained moderate attention through producing rifle
magazines and other various publicly owned weaponry and converted them into 3D
Printed Models available for free download on their webpage. The magazines
amongst other various 3D Printed Things attracted a select following to
their site. For the most part hey remained under the radar until one day,
during a VICE
interview, Cody made an announcement that would change things forever. Cody
said that he was going to 3D print a fully functional 3D gun that he would fire
himself and upload onto YouTube within two weeks. He did just that. And people
went crazy…
Three days later, federal
police came into his business and repossessed his Stratasys printer that he
bought on eBay along with his 3d Printer Plastic filament. They shut
down his website which offered the download for free to anyone with an Internet
connection. In response, Cody represented himself in a court of law (Cody is a
law student at the University of Texas), won and told the press that the battle
was already over as soon as he released the file for free download. There are zero laws
against owning a printer, zero laws against distributing CAD files and zero
copyrights were infringed upon (he designed it himself and gave it away for
free). Cody has many beliefs but to place them in the simplest of terms; man
shall be free.
In 2012 Cody Wilson was
listed in WIRED
Magazine as one of the 15 Most Dangerous People in The World. What do you
think? Is Cody a friend or foe?
Liberator or agitator?
Please comment below!
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