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I did not follow this case when it broke, so do guys know what Aaron planned on doing with all that JSTOR material he was downloading? (~80% of JSTOR, according
by sendos 13y ago
I did not follow this case when it broke, so do guys know what Aaron planned on doing with all that JSTOR material he was downloading? (~80% of JSTOR, according to one article I read)
- jmcgough 13y agoHis intent was to make it all freely available.
- MichaelSalib 13y agoWe really don't know that. There are reasons to suspect that he did, but as the report points out (section II.A.2), he never explicitly said what his intent was.
- betterunix 13y agoIt is not clear. The prosecution claims that his goal was to distribute the articles freely to the world (yes, the terrible crime of using university resources to spread knowledge), but that is just a hypothesis based on statements he made years ago.
- grauniad 13y agoMaybe he should have asked. Or gone about it in a legal way. Breaking the law, is breaking the law. However noble your intent.