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That is not correct. He launched what amounted to a DoS against JSTOR: " the strain it put on JSTOR’s servers was enough to have impaired other research instit
by rgbrenner 14y ago
That is not correct. He launched what amounted to a DoS against JSTOR:
" the strain it put on JSTOR’s servers was enough to have impaired other research institutions attempting to access the materials."
"Together, Grace and Gary Host downloaded JSTOR articles at such an astounding pace that several of JSTOR’s servers crashed."
http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N30/swartz.html http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N30/swartz.html
- ghshephard 14y agoEvery journal database I have done bulk downloads from (sometimes constantly) over a week requires a cookie and sends you a polite message (via http no less) asking you to put in a few seconds pause between each request. It would not have occurred to me that they haven't configured their servers to handle the load. Once again - Aaron did nothing that I, and tens of thousands of people like me, haven't done many times.
- rgbrenner 14y agoYou've downloaded millions of articles from JSTOR? Or how MIT put it: "more than 100 times the number of legitimate JSTOR downloads at MIT during that time period"