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5 Feb 2013, 8:07 pm
On 3 February 2013 an additional $10,000 for the Aaron Swartz Memorial Grants — which fund the development of the RECAP project aimed at increasing public access to U.S. federal judicial information — were announced by Stephen Schultze of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy.
Here is an excerpt from the announcement:
The generous folks over at Google’s Open Source Programs team have pledged to support two more RECAP-related project awards — at $5,000… [read post]
17 Jan 2013, 6:10 am
Law Blog rounds up the morning's news. [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 4:19 pm
Among those casting a kinder light on Internet activist Aaron Swartz's alleged hacking was one of his toughest critics. [read post]
24 Jan 2013, 6:23 am
Law Blog rounds up the morning's news. [read post]
26 Jan 2013, 9:17 am
"This time there will be change or there will be chaos." [read post]
19 Jan 2013, 10:17 pm
The legal open data and e-participation organization PlainSite has posted a new tool called Operation Asymptote, which crowdsources the process of making PACER content publicly available.
PACER is the U.S. federal judiciary’s fee-based database of U.S. federal court decisions and litigation papers.
PlainSite describes the tool as follows:
Operation Asymptote is an initiative designed to download as much of PACER as possible by spreading the burden across many individuals, none of whom need to… [read post]
13 Jan 2013, 1:21 pm
... America is gradually losing.... [read post]
28 Feb 2013, 6:45 am
Law Blog rounds up the morning's news. [read post]
17 Jan 2013, 10:09 am
Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. attorney in Massachusetts, said Thursday the government's "conduct was appropriate" in its handling of the Aaron Swartz prosecution.
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8 Feb 2013, 6:29 am
Law Blog rounds up the morning's news. [read post]
3 Feb 2013, 10:26 am
At least three separate efforts to crowdsource amendments to the U.S. federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) appear to have recently been launched:
Representative Zoe Lofgren and Senator Ron Wyden have been using Reddit as a platform to crowdsource revisions to the statute; they call their amendments Aaron’s Law;
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been crowdsourcing revisions to the statute on its Website (e.g., here and here);
Nadim Kobeissi is crowdsourcing revisions to the statute… [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 9:01 pm
The U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, Carmen Ortiz, issued a statement late Wednesday on her office's handling of the prosecution of Aaron Swartz. [read post]
13 May 2013, 10:52 am
A federal judge on Monday rejected a request by the family of Aaron Swartz to release the names of those involved in his arrest and federal prosecution. [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 1:22 pm
Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday said the suicide death of internet activist Aaron Swartz was a "tragedy" but the hacking case against the 26-year-old was "a good use of prosecutorial discretion."
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28 Jan 2013, 4:02 pm
More than two days since hackers attacked and defaced the website of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the agency's site is still dark. [read post]
27 Feb 2013, 5:00 am
"The current academic publishing system is prettied-up extortion. He defied it, and the rest of us should too."
I'd like to read that article, but it's in The Chronicle of Higher Education, and a subscription is needed for access.
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2 Apr 2013, 1:23 pm
Massachusetts federal authorities involved in the prosecution of Aaron Swartz have received threatening e-mail and snail mail, the Justice Department said in a court filing, and the lead prosecutor in the case had his Facebook page hacked.
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22 Apr 2013, 6:59 am
The same hacking statute internet sensation Aaron Swartz was being prosecuted under until his January suicide is quietly being tested in a San Francisco federal courtroom -- to little fanfare in a case devoid of hacking in the traditional sense.
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2 Apr 2013, 1:23 pm
Massachusetts federal authorities involved in the prosecution of Aaron Swartz have received threatening e-mail and snail mail, the Justice Department said in a court filing, and the lead prosecutor in the case had his Facebook page hacked.
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22 Feb 2013, 10:49 am
The prosecution of Aaron Swartz was motivated, in part, by the 2008 "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto" the internet activist had penned advocating for civil disobedience against copyright law, Swartz's attorney said Friday. The revelation underscores that the hacking charges against ...
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