[sdiy] legalities?

[Batz Goodfortune]

Y-ellow Fellow Mutants.
         Here's a question for those who are publishing and/or fabricating.

I'm recently concerned about a legal issue with regards to publishing my 
switch-mode quasi-project. I had read recently that just because you place 
a disclaimer on something, doesn't mean you can't be held liable. From what 
I can gather, it works like this.

Unless the disclaimer is written in law, it's not actually legally binding. 
Therefore if someone killed their gold fish with one of your projects and 
they just happened to be sufficiently angry about it, they COULD cause you 
grief. The challenge would probably not go the distance but it would still 
cost you money to defend. You'd have to contend that...

"The guy is an idiot for trying to use his gold fish as a load resistor in 
the first place."

Etc etc.

If the project was simple, like wiring a flashing LED on a stick, then 
sands for a few burnt out taste buds from licking the battery, there's 
little chance the "Idiot" could do him self much damage. However, this 
switch mode project is at the other end of the scale. Big bitey stuff. It's 
not even a real project in the sense that it deals with methods for 
determining and modifying existing computer power supplies. And since there 
are hundreds outside of the scope of the article and of the author, it 
doesn't actually deal with anything specific. All the more dangerous to an 
imbecile who might think it's trivial. In spite of any warnings. Of which 
I've placed many.

The article is part written but I don't know if to finish it and get it out 
there. I can't afford a lawyer to check out if I'm doing anything wrong and 
whilst I'm in Australia, it's published in America, technically under 
American  law.

I'm sure that someone here must have grazed upon this problem before so I'm 
wondering if anyone knows what the acceptable risk is or has any opinions 
on this side of things.

I don't HAVE to publish it but I'd like to. In that it's taken me quite 
some research to gather all this information together. No-one else has 
tackled this. Not at this level anyway. And that may well be for good 
reason. However if someone else were thinking along these lines, this may 
be useful to them.

Thanks in advance.

Be absolutely Icebox.

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