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Would a US citizen seeding this file to a foreign peer potentially violate export rules and be at risk of major legal trouble if the US gov went down that road?

Absolutely yes this is a risk. Do not do this. The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) is not something you want to mess with.

Yeah, no idea why you're being downvoted--you make a fair point.

Like, this is annoying, but all of the secondary actors seeding and whatnot here are provably and knowingly infringing on ITAR.

I don't agree with what's being done by the .gov here, and I don't think it's a good thing, but especially given how we see the courts behave and how we see the confrontational system run, I must remind our overzealous peers here who wish to antagonize the .gov:

Do not taunt happy fun ball.

1391 seeds, 109 peers at time of writing

Heh, after the defcad files there's "Guy Fawkes and Anonymous mask".