I disagree that there are other, more reasonable avenues to achieve the goal of putting as much information as possible into the public's hands. Breaking into

I disagree that there are other, more reasonable avenues to achieve the goal of putting as much information as possible into the public's hands. Breaking into a closet that you think you can access and downloading a lot of it is undeniably faster and more effective than lobbying or voting or petitioning companies or building alternative publishing mechanisms (all of which are also avenues which he has personally taken, to great effect.) If ten thousand people took Aaron's approach and simply got caught less, society would be significantly better off for it.