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Aaron Swartz is often incorrectly remembered for "illegally downloading JSTOR papers", but all he did was use a university network that was INTENTIONALLY freely accessible. Furthermore, he did not distribute the papers, nor is there evidence that he ever intended to.

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This comparison is too fair to Facebook. Not only did Swartz not actually do anything with any of the data (he literally only downloaded it), but he also did so from a computer network that was both open to the public and specifically authorized to access that data without authentication, by design.
February 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM