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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 19 2013 @ 08:46 PM EST |
I'd like to look at the script keepgrabbing.py, but now it's federal
evidence that's probably unlikely. He had unlimited access for
personal research purposes. However it is alleged his own published
statements indicate he wished to "liberate" the documents.
Whence 1. rate throttling to a bandwidth not disruptive of other
users, or to conceal the bulk dump nature of the exercise, would
have resulted in far too slow a throughput; and
2. did the script check (by date) that document(i) was in fact
public domain? Many of JSTOR's documents are from modern
subscription journals.
It would be interesting to see the exact nature of MIT's access to JSTOR.
At my last day job at a University I had access to JSTOR. It went thru
our proxy server for external library subscriptions. JSTOR accepted
the IP address of that server, and probably some other authentication.
The end user IIRC was presented with a pseudo login screen with
a link to JSTOR's ToS and a Continue button. Thus all users were
deemed to have accepted the Conditions imposed by
http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp
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