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| Authored by: PJ on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 07:59 AM EST |
Steve Heymann was the prosecutor in this
case, and you clearly have not read the
article. Why not do that?
Here's a question for you after you read it:
If he was authorized to download data, and
JSTOR had all its articles after he finished,
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- Notice the Trolls - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 10:22 AM EST
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 08:02 AM EST |
Forgot the reason why - for all intents and purposes, you're communists.
Effete, pampered communists. It turns off anyone not a member of the club and
results in you guys perceiving things differently than others. No one outside of
the Left thinks much of Aaron Swartz.
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| Authored by: scav on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 12:27 PM EST |
Almost no point in replying to what I suspect to be a troll, but...
The problem here is that government overreacted to a ridiculous extent and
abused poorly-worded legislation to press charges carrying a massively over-
punitive sentence for activity that was, *even if illegal* (not established
yet),
essentially harmless and certainly not violent or destructive in any way.
I cannot pretend to understand the kind of mind who cheers on such abuse of
power. Possibly one not very good at extrapolating the consequences, or one
naive enough to think that only naughty "crackers" who "steal
data" will ever
be on the receiving end.
Understand this: government and corporations already have much more
power than individuals. They can crush you like a bug whenever they want, or
more likely, whenever they get confused or panicked into acting rashly and
you happen to be in the way. Leaving vaguely-worded legislation lying around
for them to use is like "improving" the effectiveness of your guard
dog by
tying a chainsaw to its tail and infecting it with rabies.
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The emperor, undaunted by overwhelming evidence that he had no clothes,
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| Authored by: symbolset on Thursday, January 17 2013 @ 12:22 AM EST |
"JSTOR's mission
is to foster widespread access to the world's body of scholarly
knowledge".
They are a nonprofit. Distributing this information is their
mission. He was just giving them a hand. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 17 2013 @ 10:04 AM EST |
Jonathan James is not a poster child. He hacked into systems for fun, when he
was 15, and he got sentenced for those. But Jonathan James killed him self way
later, because Secret Service was investigating him for crimes which, according
to him, he did not do (theft of personal and credit information).[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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