Today we @fund_defi are proud to submit an amicus brief in US v. Storm, arguing that the court should not validate the government’s unprecedented and damaging theory of criminal liability for software developers. This case has important implications for developers in every industry, not just digital assets. 🧵 defieducationfund.org/_files/ugd/84b…
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2/ High level: the government’s theory underlying each of the three counts in the indictment is that software developers are criminally liable for a third party's later illicit use of their software . . . even when there was no direct or active engagement between the software developer and the third party. That is a massive expansion of the law.