It's worth noting that only a fraction of those who download the printable gun file will ever try to actually create one. "This is the first in what will become an avalanche of undetectable, untraceable, easy-to-manufacture weapons that will turn the tables on evil-doers the world over," writes one user with the name DakotaSmith on the site. It's also been uploaded to the filesharing site the Pirate Bay, where it's quickly become one of the most popular files in the site's 3D-printing category.
The gun's blueprint, of course, may have also already spread far wider than Defense Distributed can measure.
in downloads, it seems more Americans have now downloaded the file. Update: Although Spain was initially outpacing the U.S. is second, ahead of Brazil, Germany, and the U.K., he says, although he wasn't able to provide absolute download numbers for each country. The most downloads of Defense Distributed's "Liberator," surprisingly, haven't come from the U.S., but from Spain, according to Khalid's count. "There are plenty of services we could have used, but we chose this one. "We're sympathetic to Kim Dotcom," says Wilson. government after being indicted for copyright infringement and racketeering in early 2012. But he also says he feels a degree of common cause with Kim Dotcom, the ex-hacker chief executive of Mega who has become a vocal critic of the U.S. Cody Wilson, Defense Distributed's 25-year-old founder, says that the group chose to use Mega mostly because it was fast and free.
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