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flavionm • today at 6:22 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Technically no, but you can distribute software, especially for free, that happens to break copy protection for one or more valid reasons, according to the law.

And, more importantly, we certainly don't try to limit the capabilities of computing that might be used to do those things. Given how AIs are very general purpose tools, the fact that they can be used to do something potentially harmful is too narrow a threat.

Nobody is trying to push for cars that automatically stop themselves from running over someone either, which would make for a more comparable analogy than cars with flamethrowers.