Some people are of the view that as soon as we started allowing the government to prosecute people for writing code that can be used to potentially infringe oth

Some people are of the view that as soon as we started allowing the government to prosecute people for writing code that can be used to potentially infringe others that the concept of open-source code distribution was too risky for certain projects. Other countries have also incorporated their own DMCA nonsense with varying levels of success so 'dont be American' is not a silver bullet either. However DMCA has yet to be challenged in the U.S Supreme Court so that is unsettled law.