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You're new so I won't hold it against you. Aaron Swartz would have 100% approved of this.

• junon 5y ago
  I'm not new, and no he wouldn't have.
  • ddtaylor 5y ago
    Aaron was known for circumventing systems.
    • croes 5y ago
      Was he also known for harming innocent bystanders just to hit big companies?
      • ddtaylor 5y ago
        Actually, yeah, because when he setup his PACER scraping script he used credentials belonging to a library that didn't belong to him. A similar thing happened when he hid the computer on campus in a closest that did the JSTOR scraping.
        • selfhoster11 5y ago
          Boo hoo, he "stole" what, $2 worth of computing resources/electricity by doing this? No human has been harmed here. No property has been substantially harmed either. Anything he "stole" should've been made public for free in the first place.