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Academics claim they’re protesting the closed system Swartz fought, but that won’t change anything
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Criminal Charges Against Aaron Swartz (Part 2: Prosecutorial Discretion)
This is the second in a series of posts on the Aaron Swartz prosecution. In my first post, I analyzed whether the charges that were brought against Swartz were justified as a matter of law. In this post, I consider whether the prosecutors in the case properly exercised their discretion. As some readers may know, …
The Internet activist Aaron Swartz has died from an apparent suicide. Swartz was facing a criminal trial in April on charges arising from his effort to “liberate” the JSTOR database, and there has been a lot of commentary accusing the prosecutors in his case of having abused their role in ways that contributed to Swartz’s …
Earlier today we received a strange and intriguing press release from a certain ‘Marmaduke Robida’ claiming to be ‘Director for Public Domain Content’ at Gale Cengage’…
Academic publishing is structured on exclusivity, and to read them people must shell out an average of $19 per article.
Violate website terms of use and you too could be a felon.
Federal prosectors are adding additional counts against well-known coder and activist Aaron Swartz, who was charged last year in connection to breaching hacking laws for downloading millions of academic articles from a subscription database at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sims article. The licenses libraries agree to can be used to bring criminal prosecutions against our users. (TOS violations may be prosecutable "computer fraud.")
The New York Times reports: Aaron Swartz, a 24-year-old programmer and online political activist, has been indicted in Boston on charges that he
Was Aaron Swartz Stealing?Since the July 19th indictment of Aaron Swartz for surreptitiously whooshing nearly five million JSTOR documents onto a laptop concealed in an MIT network closet, there’s been a lot of codswallop written about JSTOR, about ...