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Aaron Swartz - this shows our laws have gone too far | 429 comments | Create New Account
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Aaron Swartz
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 12 2013 @ 04:03 PM EST
Bad link, corrected. http://techguylabs.com
Sorry. --DonW

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Aaron Swartz
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 12 2013 @ 04:22 PM EST
Depression, and it's cause and the increase, the increase is astounding. And, if you look at the magnatude of the affect of Methanol in the food and the SSRI stories related posts. You start to get an to a point where WE NEED TO HAVE THIS RESEARCH validated, using the Socratic Method, to somehow keep our best minds protected from this silent factor... only a factor, but it needs to be examined...
SSRI Stories

The Story of SSRI Stories.

WHY? As, deeply, we ALL miss those who are gone, each mother feels the same, as this, these links, are all about the same story. And, might be the story in an indirect way? I will post again, in Aaron's and others living with depression's memory. There is something to the below videos, when you look at it as a complete picture of overall health (of adults, children, and babies).

Dr. Mercola Interviews Dr. Monte about Methanol that exists in huge amounts in various packaged foods and drinks...!
Click Here for the “in depth” scientific laced discussion/interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch? feature=player_embedded&v=MS_gCcevZqY Just imagine how this affects the children that are consuming this stuff too?

And This... how important this is... not vodoo, but science.

JUSTICE FOR JOY (where kids are also being damaged)
On YouTube - Shocking News - Freedom of Information Act request.
(This video, documents the start of Austism Epidemic, the when and why)

Video (click here):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZVi3M_OiCo

Read chapter 12 of “While Science Sleeps”, here is a link to PDF file to Chapter 12

- go to http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com

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  • Aaron Swartz - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 13 2013 @ 12:44 AM EST
    • Aaron Swartz - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 13 2013 @ 08:38 AM EST
    • Aaron Swartz - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 13 2013 @ 03:44 PM EST
  • Depression and its causes - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 14 2013 @ 04:46 AM EST
Aaron Swartz
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 12 2013 @ 04:46 PM EST

He made the newspaper in the Netherlands as well http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2013/01/12/bekende-computerprogra mmeur-aaron-swartz-pleegt-zelfmoord/

May he rest in peace.

His story reminds us how overzealous ip enforcement ruins lives. It is not just about money, it is about actual people being impacted.

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Aaron Swartz — misspelled on News Links
Authored by: ankylosaurus on Saturday, January 12 2013 @ 05:55 PM EST
The news link for If I get hit by a truck misspells Aaron's surname in the end:

If I get hit by a truck... ...please read this web page ...

Source Code
Copyright for my GPLed source code should revert to the Free Software Foundation. They seem to have a reasonable policy about letting people use the code. - Aaron Schwartz

Sadly, the page needs updating; the tail comment "I'm not dead yet!" is no longer accurate.

---
The Dinosaur with a Club at the End of its Tail

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Aaron Swartz - this shows our laws have gone too far
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 12 2013 @ 11:37 PM EST
When a top student is prosecuted for freeing academic journal information to the
point where he is thrown out of school and faces an effective life prison
sentence, all for the sake of protecting the current status quo of a copyright
regime, it's time for change.

Regardless, I am very sad that he chose to end his life -- he could have still
done great things even after serving some time in jail. This is a very great
miscarriage of justice.

Long live Aaron Swartz!

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Aaron Swartz - This is our Tunesian Fruit Seller
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 13 2013 @ 12:02 AM EST
Perhaps the death or Aaron Swartz can lead to a overthrow of the current
intellectual property regime. Can this be the point were we just get fed up and
change the laws against the wishes of the lobbyist?

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Rest In Peace Aaron Swartz
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 13 2013 @ 01:13 AM EST
It's a sad day. A red day. The time is long past when we need to reform the
Copyright and overbearing laws in this country. Not just the CFAA.

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Have you no sense of decency, sir?
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 13 2013 @ 06:50 AM EST
were the words used to end another witch hunt...

Thank you Mr. Welch

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Uninformed, ignorant, or deliberately obtuse?
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 13 2013 @ 03:51 PM EST
No link in deference to PJ's previously expressed opinion of AP, this syndicated article can be found all around the dailies now, Google some of the text.
JSTOR did not press charges once it reclaimed the articles from Swartz, and some legal experts considered the case unfounded, saying that MIT allows guests access to the articles and Swartz, a fellow at Harvard's Safra Center for Ethics, was a guest.
Maybe the court papers will reveal to us the justication for JSTOR's belief they had reclaimed the articles, probably an affidavit that the laptop and/or its hard drive were in the possession of the Federal authorities. Suppose Swartz had the time, resources, inclination to be running another script rsyncing his download folder to an offsite repository. If JSTOR were aware of this how would they go about reclaiming the articles? The metaphysical disconnect between a paper document and an e-document doesn't seem to have penetrated those minds that still believe this to be common theft. Sure, both types of document can be certified, signed, sealed; and both can be forged and uttered. But my dictionary defines theft as the act of stealing and
steal vb. 1 [trans] take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it;
Swartz had permission and legal right, but who else who reads JSTOR articles has ever had to return them? I expect to hear heavy footsteps outside my door following this confession that I have on my hard disk several articles saved from JSTOR. I have even emailed a few to colleagues out of town who were unable to timely present themselves at the public terminal of our University library.

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Time to end JSTOR
Authored by: symbolset on Sunday, January 13 2013 @ 06:57 PM EST

Facing 30 years in prison - more than offered for multiple murder. And for what? Most of this information was public information, almost all in the public domain.

Librating this information will do great work toward the goal of copyright: "To promote the progress of science and the useful arts..."

A fitting tribute to this brilliant young man is to release and index the data, and do away with this cause of his oppression.

And then in the longer term to end the oppressive eternal copyright regime.

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Human to MIT: Anybody with a soul there?
Authored by: BJ on Sunday, January 13 2013 @ 07:31 PM EST
Aaron Swartz was one of us.
Was he one of you?

bjd


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Aaron Swartz
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 13 2013 @ 11:30 PM EST
The more I learn about what happened, the more it has become clear that MIT made
a serious error when they contacted the authorities and then cooperated with
them after learning an unknown computer had been connected to their network.

It looks to me like anyone with a conscience should not contact the authorities
nor cooperate in any way until after they know what has really happened. I've
seen too many people get ground up in the system to ever trust it again.

It's really sad that it has come to this in the home of the free. It's also a
national security issue, in more ways than one.

If universities and technology companies cannot contact the authorities when
they suspect they've been hacked, then foreign powers will be able to run
rampant with little worry of being caught.

Meanwhile as PJ pointed out, we won't have anyone to respond with if people are
too scared to try things out, because they may be prosecuted for a typo.

Something needs to change.

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Aaron Swartz Died Innocent — Here Is the Evidence
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 14 2013 @ 03:07 AM EST
Let me establish my bona fides. I have led the investigation of dozens of computer crimes, from Latvian hackers blackmailing a stock brokerage to Chinese government-backed attacks against dozens of American enterprises. I have investigated small violations of corporate policy to the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and have responded to break-ins at social networks, e-tailers and large banks. While we are no stranger to pro bono work, having served as experts on EFF vs Sony BMG and Sony vs Hotz, our reports have also been used in the prosecution of at least a half dozen attackers. In short, I am no long-haired hippy anarchist who believes that anything goes on the Internet.

[...]

Aaron Swartz was not the super hacker breathlessly described in the Government's indictment and forensic reports, and his actions did not pose a real danger to JSTOR, MIT or the public. He was an intelligent young man who found a loophole that would allow him to download a lot of documents quickly. This loophole was created intentionally by MIT and JSTOR, and was codified contractually in the piles of paperwork turned over during discovery. If I had taken the stand as planned and had been asked by the prosecutor whether Aaron's actions were "wrong", I would probably have replied that what Aaron did would better be described as "inconsiderate".

Alex Stamos, io9

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Aaron Swartz’s Politics: "making life a little less unfair"
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 14 2013 @ 12:31 PM EST
Matt Stoller is a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and a contributing editor to the financial site Naked Capitalism. He also contributes to Politico, Alternet, Salon, The Nation and Reuters, focusing on the intersection of foreclosures, the financial system, and political corruption.

The following is a small part of a longer essay Stoller wrote for Naked Capitalism.

Making “life a little less unfair.” Those aren’t the words of a techno-utopianist, those are the words of a liberal political organizer. They remind me of how Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has described her own work. Aaron knew life would always be unfair, but that was no reason not to try to make society better. He had no illusions about power but maintained hope for our society if, I suppose, not always for himself. This is a very difficult way to approach the world, but it’s why he was so heroic in how he acted. I want people to understand that Aaron sought not open information systems, but justice. Aaron believed passionately in the scientific method as a guide for organizing our society, and in that open-minded but powerful critique, he was a technocratic liberal. His leanings sometimes moved him towards more radical postures because he recognized that our governing institutions had become malevolent, but he was not an anarchist.

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Unauthorized access
Authored by: mbouckaert on Monday, January 14 2013 @ 05:02 PM EST
Could someone remind me how many years in jail someone,
anyone at Sony had to spend for his malicious and
intentional rootkit ?

Oh I forgot. Corporations are people, except, better.

I have little hope that overzealous prosecutors in this case
will be sanctioned any more than the happy-to-make-a-deal
ones in the former.

IMHO this one has blood on the hands.

RIP.

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bck

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