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Geoffrey Ingersoll<\/strong>
Business Insider<\/a>
May 9, 2013<\/p>\n

Downloaders have successfully acquired at least 100,000 schematics for Defense Distributed\u2019s printable 3D handgun over the course of two days.<\/p>\n

By comparison, the first episode of Game of Thrones\u00a0clocked in at a million<\/a> downloads per day.<\/p>\n

Andy Greenberg of\u00a0Forbes<\/a> reports that company<\/a> owner Cody Wilson teamed up with controversial Kim Dotcom to upload the gun\u2019s print plans to the website Mega. Predictably, Greenberg notes, Americans have surged into the lead for the country with the most downloads, in front of Spain, Brazil, Germany and the U.K.<\/p>\n

And the plans are spreading.<\/p>\n

From Forbes:<\/p>\n

The gun\u2019s blueprint, of course, may have also already spread far wider than Defense Distributed can measure. It\u2019s also been uploaded to the filesharing site the Pirate Bay, where it\u2019s quickly become one of the most popular files in the site\u2019s 3D-printing category. \u201cThis 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,\u201d writes one user with the name DakotaSmith on the site. \u201cShare and enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson told Greenberg this about choosing Dotcom, \u201cWe\u2019re sympathetic to Kim Dotcom. There are plenty of services we could have used, but we chose this one. He\u2019s down for the struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n