alt Hacker NewsThere are a lot of remedies available to a court with respect to a recalcitrant party, ranging from an injunction to remove your product from the market to fines and imprisonment. Again, speak with your attorney. Do not try to "hack the law" yourself; many who have tried have regretted it later.
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> Again, speak with your attorney. Do not try to "hack the law" yourself; many who have tried have regretted it later.
Also reach out to the EFF, who may be able to help/advise, especially if you genuinely want to fight this.
This is a terrible law. That doesn't mean it's not a law, and courts do not look kindly on people subject to their jurisdiction (which unfortunately often includes state laws to people in other states) who try to dodge the responsibility the court thinks they should have.
Or maybe we're at the point where we'll go to prison because of unjust laws.
I'd trust the judgement on an open source maintainer on how to best maintain their code. Your comment seems like it was made out of genuine concern but I think you need a lawyer too before you can argue this with certainty
There is no "market"
No need to hack the law. Our FOSS code is constitutionally protected free speech and I would defend on those grounds.
The technical design of the project just makes it so no one can force changes on the distro unwanted by the maintainer team regardless of any courtroom outcomes.
Like, what if someone made a law that said Bitcoin nodes must KYC? They could make the law I guess, and the international network operators would just laugh at it.