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Are_we__sure ago

Wow, what a load of nonsense.

He might have been a nice guy and a brilliant guy, but, Aaron Schwartz was DEFINITELY illegally accessing JSTOR documents and definitely illegally accessing the MIT network to do it. And there is a A TON of evidence to back this up. NONE of the controversy about his death involved the question did he do this and was he guilty. He did do it and he definitely was guilty. None of his friends or family dispute this. Schwartz had written a manifesto about this. There is zero evidence he was doing anything about child porn.

https://archive.org/stream/JSTORSwartzEvidenceAllDocs/JSTOR-Swartz-Evidence-All-Docs#page/n1203/mode/2up

http://docs.jstor.org/jstor-statement-misuse-incident-and-criminal-case.html

The downloaded content included more than 4 million articles, book reviews, and other content from our publisher partners' academic journals and other publications;.......We stopped this downloading activity, and the individual responsible, Mr. Swartz, was identified. We secured from Mr. Swartz the content that was taken, and received confirmation that the content was not and would not be used, copied, transferred, or distributed.

It WAS NOT a ONE TIME THING. It had been going on for weeks. He illegally hooked his laptop up to MIT network to do it faster and automatically. In two days he stole 400K articles. When they found his laptop, they set up a camera and caught him. He was committing mulitple crimes and they were not victimless. Because of him, JSTOR had turned off access to documents for the entire MIT community a couple of times, he was affecting the speed of the entire network. Imagine paying a large tuition to a college and working your paper, or thesis and you go to access the materials you need to do your work and getting the page that says Your university has lost access to JSTOR materials.

He was stealing content. Content that produces $70 million dollars annually, Money that not only went to JSTOR but went to publishers and authors.

If you come into my company and steal my company's main product, you are victimizing me and all my employees and partners. For some of the Publisher's that worked with JSTOR, he stole like 97% of their content.

Scwartz admitted to JSTOR what he stole. He gave them back the articles and journals he downloaded in return for them not pursuing what would have been multi-million dollar lawsuit against him.

eagleshigh ago

Do I steal papers from Elsevier every time I used Sci-Hub to access it? @Antiracist @bojangles @SarMegahhikkitha

Are_we__sure ago

No, because I'm assuming you are accessing them within their terms of service.

eagleshigh ago

I am using Sci-Hub to access them. Is that 'within their terms of service'?

@Antiracist @bojangles @SarMegahhikkitha