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The actual indictment with details of the hack: http://web.mit.edu/bitbucket/Swartz,%20Aaron%20Indictment.pdf http://web.mit.edu/bitbucket/Swartz,%20Aaron%20Ind
by bobfunk 15y ago
The actual indictment with details of the hack: http://web.mit.edu/bitbucket/Swartz,%20Aaron%20Indictment.pdf http://web.mit.edu/bitbucket/Swartz,%20Aaron%20Indictment.pd...
Also JSTOR's statement: http://about.jstor.org/news-events/news/jstor-statement-misuse-incident-and-criminal-case http://about.jstor.org/news-events/news/jstor-statement-misu...
35 years in jail sounds insanely outside all proportions of the damage done by downloading scholarly articles!
- kmccarth 15y agothanks for the JSTOR statement. 35 years sounds crazy high too
- localhost3000 15y agodepends... what's the total value of what he stole? say, for arguments sake, it was in the 7 figure range. If I steal a million bucks from you, how long would you like me to spend in prison?
- yuhong 15y agoI think it was 4 million articles in the JSTOR database that he downloaded.
- tluyben2 15y ago35 years is crazy; if they wanted could MIT do something about that? I mean; it seems far more reasonable to give me a fine.
- gregory80 15y agoDemand progress makes it sound like MIT asked the gov't not to pursue the case. But the gov't went forward anyway http://demandprogress.org/aaron http://demandprogress.org/aaron