[Buddha-l] Internet activist Aaron Swartz commits suicide Re: Library.nu

[Joy Vriens]

Police hadarrested 
<http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-charged-with-data-theft/>Swartz 
in July 2011. He wasaccused of stealing 
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/60362456/Aaron-Swartz-indictment>4 million 
documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Jstor, an 
archive of scientific journals and academic papers. The authorities 
claimed that he broke into a restricted-access computer wiring closet at 
MIT and accessed that network without authorization.

Jstor said that the downloaded content included "more than 4 million 
articles, book reviews, and other content from our publisher partners' 
academic journals and other publications."

If convicted, Swartz faced a maximum of $4 million in fines and more 
than 50 years in prison after the governmentincreased the number of 
felony counts 
<http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120917/17393320412/us-government-ups-felony-count-jstoraaron-swartz-case-four-to-thirteen.shtml>against 
Swartz to 13 from 4.


http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57563642-93/internet-activist-aaron-swartz-commits-suicide/
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/12/reddit-co-founder-hangs-self-weeks-before-facing-trial-on-data-theft-charges/

Cordialement,

Joy Vriens

Le 20/03/2012 13:35, Daya-mati Richard Hayes a écrit :
> If what you are getting online is for free, you are not the customer, you are the product. -Jonathan Zittrain, professor of Internet law (b. 1969)
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