Internet Activist charged with MIT data theft

[the_leander]

Aaron Swartz, a 24-year-old programmer and online political activist, has been indicted in Boston on charges that he stole more than four million documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and JSTOR, an archive of scientific journals and academic papers. (Read the full indictment below.)

Mr. Swartz was indicted last Thursday by the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Carmen M. Ortiz, and the indictment was unsealed Tuesday. The charges could result in up to 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine.

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[FluffyMcDeath]

Full story here.

It's a pile of steaming horse crap. I hate the "propaganda" message that the media has been pushing the last decade or so. Copying IS NOT theft. It is a false assertion. The "victim" of copying has not yet been damaged by the mere act of copying.

 

[Robert]

reminds me of.....