Feds Charge Aaron Swartz With Felony Hacking… For Downloading A Ton Of...
Well, the big story making the rounds today has been the charges filed against Aaron Swartz by US prosecutors for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — a law that is all too often been abused by...
View ArticleAaron Swartz Indictment Leading People To… Upload JSTOR Research To File...
If it’s true that Aaron Swartz’s foray into an MIT computer wiring closet was as part of a project to copy JSTOR research and upload it to file sharing sites for open access, then I imagine part of the...
View ArticleJSTOR Freely Releases Public Domain Papers That Greg Maxwell Already Freed
You may recall that following the indictment of Aaron Swartz for downloading some JSTOR papers, a guy named Greg Maxwell decided to upload 33GBs of public domain papers from JSTOR and make them...
View ArticleUS Government Ups Felony Count In JSTOR/Aaron Swartz Case From Four To Thirteen
Not much has been said about the Aaron Swartz case over the past year as the wheels of “justice” slowly grind their way to an eventual court date. Swartz, the executive director of Demand Progress, was...
View ArticleSad: 75 Year Old Explanation For Why Copyrights Are Bad… Locked Up Behind...
A few weeks ago, we wrote about famed economist Gary Becker (along with his colleague Judge Richard Posner) discussing problems with the patent and copyright system, and pondering if the laws on both...
View ArticleConcerns Raised About Aaron Swartz's Prosecution And The Wikileaks Connection
Let’s state upfront that a lot of what’s in this post is conjecture based on a few pieces of information out there. I’m not convinced that it presents enough evidence of an actual connection. However,...
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US Attorneys Reveal Online Bullying To Explain Why People Who Helped Them...
We recently wrote about how Aaron Swartz’s legal team was arguing with MIT and the DOJ about publicly releasing some of the documents in the case against him. MIT and the DOJ want to keep the names of...
View ArticleDetails Show MIT Employees Gleefully Helped With Prosecution And Persecution...
Last summer, MIT tried (weakly) to defend what it called its “neutral” stance on Aaron Swartz, allowing the case to proceed even though the only party that had a legitimate claim to “harm,” JSTOR, had...
View ArticleDescribing Public Domain Works As 'Pirated' And 'Illegal' Is Bad For Everyone
Yahoo Tech has an interesting column about an “art project” in Germany, where a bunch of folks are printing out 250,000 academic papers from JSTOR, which they’re describing as the JSTOR Pirate...
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