{"id":3172,"date":"2003-04-02T01:12:01","date_gmt":"2003-04-02T05:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2003\/04\/02\/criminalizing-the-tool-not-the-user-"},"modified":"2003-04-02T01:12:01","modified_gmt":"2003-04-02T05:12:01","slug":"criminalizing-the-tool-not-the-user-and-the-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2003\/04\/02\/criminalizing-the-tool-not-the-user-and-the-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminalizing the Tool, Not the User and the Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a104'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>Via&nbsp;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.lawmeme.org\">Lawmeme<\/A>: &#8220;<A href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=388081\">What Federal Gun Control Can Teach Us About the DMCA&#8217;s Anti-trafficking Provisions<\/A>.&#8221;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;ll need to read this one soon. As I&#8217;ve said before, I&#8217;ve always been a little skeptical of this analogy. For one thing, guns have that whole 2nd Amendment backing them up &#8211; kinda complicates the situation.&nbsp; Also, it doesn&#8217;t look like he examines other similar bans, like prohibitions on drug paraphernalia, burglary tools, and wiretapping equipment.&nbsp; I wonder why he focused on guns only.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via&nbsp;Lawmeme: &#8220;What Federal Gun Control Can Teach Us About the DMCA&#8217;s Anti-trafficking Provisions.&#8221; I&#8217;ll need to read this one soon. As I&#8217;ve said before, I&#8217;ve always been a little skeptical of this analogy. For one thing, guns have that whole 2nd Amendment backing them up &#8211; kinda complicates the situation.&nbsp; Also, it doesn&#8217;t look like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}