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I remember reading on arstechnica about Aaron. US justice system has so much inconsistencies. Punishment for copyright cases being harsher than the ones for Ac
by rubberstamp 11y ago
I remember reading on arstechnica about Aaron.
US justice system has so much inconsistencies. Punishment for copyright cases being harsher than the ones for Actual crimes being one of them. Lets not forget that he is being called criminal because he broke a law, a silly thing signed into law probably because someone lobbyed so hard for it. He is no actual criminal. He didn't feel the articles he downloaded from servers should be kept private. At least the research papers funded with public money should be public property. But so much pressure was put on him that he took his own life. If justice system was fair, he could've faced it. But currently the system is broken. He knew that and felt hopeless. Pushing for things like banning him from all things electronic, and thus internet, is not the right way to serve justice. What reforms have taken place since then?
- cglace 11y ago> He is no actual criminal. He didn't feel the articles he downloaded from servers should be kept private. That is a horrible argument. should I just be able to take your tv because I think it shouldn't be locked up in your house? I'm not saying I agree with the papers being locked up. Not believing in a law does not make you innocent. Many people think they don't have to pay their taxes and they all go to jail.
- rubberstamp 11y agoif my tv was bought with public money, yes
- briandear 11y agoSo I can go into a welfare recipient's house and take the food out of their house? Can I go into a military post and take some rifles? Such a ridiculous logic.
- rubberstamp 11y agoI realize the ridiculousness of comment I made, but I wasn't originally talking about tv. Aaron has made possible free access to many documents that were being charged for access, but they are actually documents that should be in public domain. JSTOR is journal store which contains journals published by researchers all over the world. JSTOR access is licensed. There is no open access and the access fees are not cheap for something that is digitalized. Does JSTOR compensate the original article publisher? Aaron Swartz was only trying to make this archive public. He could've used an alternative way to achieve that goal. But does he actually deserve 30 to 50 years in prison and a million in fine for what he did? I wouldn't have had a problem with it if those responsible for the 2008 financial crisis were given an appropriate punishment, say 500 years in jail time and fined at least a few billions.
- ryanlol 11y ago>but were actually documents that should be in public domain. But they are?
- cglace 11y agoHe wasn't going to get 30 years. Again I'm not saying I agree with the way he was prosecuted but he did commit a lot of crimes. Whether or not you agree with the ends he was aiming for doesn't change the facts.
- cellularmitosis 11y agoThat's also a horrible argument. When you take someone's TV, they no longer have it. When Aaron copied documents, JSTOR still had them...