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>Legally adults, perhaps, but I think we have a social consensus that most college students are kids. US universities are famously litigious and take a hard li
by bubblethink 5y ago
>Legally adults, perhaps, but I think we have a social consensus that most college students are kids.
US universities are famously litigious and take a hard line stance when it suits them. See Aaron Swartz. So, I don't buy the 'they are still kids' line. That is, I don't condone it, but I don't agree that universities are motivated by this sort of reasoning.
- woodruffw 5y ago> US universities are famously litigious and take a hard line stance when it suits them. See Aaron Swartz. MIT was not a party to the lawsuit against Aaron Swartz, nor was even JSTOR. It was brought entirely by the US Attorney for Massachusetts.
- syshum 5y agoThey claim that after the fact, after the bad press, I believe neither JSTOR or MIT
- woodruffw 5y agoYou don't have to believe them. You can look at the court records yourself, or any number of public case summaries[1]. To quote: > Opting not to pursue a civil lawsuit against him, JSTOR reached a settlement with him in the summer of 2011 in which Swartz turned over the downloaded data to them. It was never released to the public. Neither did MIT take any civil action against him. The lawsuit was a purely Justice initiative. [1]: https://fija.org/library-and-resources/library/law-and-legal-cases/aaron-swartz.html https://fija.org/library-and-resources/library/law-and-legal...
- CRConrad 5y ago> You can look at the court records yourself The problem with referring to the official record is that one misses what isn't in the official record.