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12 Jan 2013, 2:58 pm by Prashant Reddy
 Swartz was clearly a genius and making information publicly available was a noble goal but we live in a world of laws and the means matter much as the ends. [read post]
17 Jan 2013, 7:48 am by Timothy B. Lee
The career prosecutors handling this matter took on the difficult task of enforcing a law they had taken an oath to uphold, and did so reasonably. [read post]
23 Mar 2013, 7:27 am by Mike Madison
Swartz’s is a sad story, but it’s not a heroic one. [read post]
20 Jul 2011, 5:01 am by SHG
  JSTOR was satisfied that the matter was resolved. [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 11:45 am by Timothy B. Lee
The attorney general said the government never intended for Swartz to serve more than six months in jail. [read post]
15 Jan 2013, 7:23 am by Betsy McKenzie
The inflexible attitude of the prosecutors was notable and puzzling to those watching the matter unfold.Friday, Aaron Swartz hanged himself at his Brooklyn apartment. [read post]
19 Jan 2013, 8:11 pm by Andres
As a matter of principle, I have always believed that any regulatory response to individual cases tends to be misguided, particularly if those situations are exceptional cases. [read post]
6 Feb 2013, 7:29 am by Betsy McKenzie
Swartz never called him back.It is sad that the judge in Swartz's case did not feel he or she could dismiss the matter. [read post]
19 Jul 2011, 6:05 pm by Max Kennerly
As a conceptual matter, all transmissions to a computer cause the “impairment” of the computer’s function by utilizing memory, storage, or processing cycles. [read post]
22 Jan 2013, 2:58 pm by Jessica Mendelson
Following up on my post discussing the matter, I spoke with Colin O’Keefe of LXBN regarding how legislative changes may soon be coming to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act following the tragic death of entrepreneur and internet activist Aaron Swartz. [read post]
24 Mar 2013, 8:03 pm by Ken
The reaction to Swartz' suicide was tribal. [read post]
13 Jan 2013, 1:36 pm by Ray Beckerman
He returned all of the data, and the organization which was supposedly 'victimized' dropped its charges, and expressed regret that it had ever been drawn into a criminal prosecution in the first place.There is a special place in Hell for the a**holes at MIT who insisted on pursuing this matter, and for the heartless clones in the US Attorney's Office who insisted on seeking 30 years imprisonment.That's what happens in a facist society, where big business owns the government and the… [read post]
22 Jan 2013, 2:58 pm by Jessica Mendelson
Following up on my post discussing the matter, I spoke with Colin O’Keefe of LXBN regarding how legislative changes may soon be coming to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act following the tragic death of entrepreneur and internet activist Aaron Swartz. [read post]
28 Oct 2016, 5:01 am by James Edward Maule
”The Tax Court suggested that perhaps Swartz was arguing a subtler point, that, although his distinction between a void theft and a voidable one might not have mattered as a matter of New York criminal law, it should matter under federal income tax law. [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 8:50 am by David Kravets
Citing "personnel matters," the White House is refusing to fire two federal officials involved in the prosecution of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide ahead of his hacking trial. [read post]
19 Jul 2011, 11:55 am by Ryan Singel
As for whether JSTOR supports the prosecution, McGregor simply said that the company was not commenting on the matter. [read post]
27 Aug 2014, 11:58 pm by April Glaser
PACER charges per page to view US court documents that are a matter of public record. [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 5:00 pm by Cyrus Farivar
In a matter of seconds, you too can "liberate" an old academic article from JSTOR. [read post]