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1 Aug 2013, 12:48 pm by Ilya Somin
UPDATE: Some readers might cite the Aaron Swartz prosecution as evidence that minor violations of the CFAA do get prosecuted. [read post]
25 Aug 2009, 4:44 pm
In September 2008, it shut down the few free terminals it had placed in about 12 libraries around the country after it discovered that open gov hacker Aaron Swartz used the and downloaded gigs upon gigs of court documents. [read post]
25 Jun 2013, 1:52 pm by Lisa A. Mazzie
Time Magazine featured on its June 24 cover three “hacktivists” it labeled “The Informers”: Snowden, Bradley Manning, and the late Aaron Swartz. [read post]
26 Dec 2015, 9:39 am by Jamie Williams
Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) reintroduced legislation—dubbed “Aaron’s Law” in honor of Internet hero Aaron Swartz—aimed at reining in some of that discretion. [read post]
25 Oct 2014, 10:08 am by Adi Kamdar
We Need Computer Crime Laws That Make Sense Activist Aaron Swartz was worried about access to existing knowledge, and particularly the vast amount of work tied up in online repositories like JSTOR. [read post]
4 Nov 2016, 12:47 pm by Gennie Gebhart
., activist Aaron Swartz also met unjust charges on 13 criminal counts for downloading millions of articles from academic journal database JSTOR. [read post]
6 Jan 2016, 10:33 am by Jamie Williams
Maximum punishments are sometimes just a ploy to induce a defendant into a plea bargain or capture the public's attention, as we saw in the government's tragic case against Aaron Swartz. [read post]
31 Oct 2016, 1:23 pm by Jamie Williams
Prosecutors used the law’s harsh maximum punishments as a ploy to capture the public’s attention and induce a plea bargain in their tragic case against Aaron Swartz. [read post]
12 Sep 2016, 1:43 pm by Elizabeth B. Carpenter
Most notoriously, the law was used to pursue Aaron Swartz, the young programmer who committed suicide after being charged with mass-downloading research papers from an MIT database, in violation of its terms of service—despite the fact that he was then a research fellow at MIT, with authorized access to the involved database. [read post]
21 Mar 2013, 4:56 am by Ed Felten
And the harsh treatment of people like Aaron Swartz and Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer has sparked a pushback against over-criminalization and over-punishment of access to information. [read post]
12 Sep 2016, 1:43 pm by Elizabeth B. Carpenter
Most notoriously, the law was used to pursue Aaron Swartz, the young programmer who committed suicide after being charged with mass-downloading research papers from an MIT database, in violation of its terms of service—despite the fact that he was then a research fellow at MIT, with authorized access to the involved database. [read post]
12 Sep 2016, 1:43 pm by Elizabeth B. Carpenter
Most notoriously, the law was used to pursue Aaron Swartz, the young programmer who committed suicide after being charged with mass-downloading research papers from an MIT database, in violation of its terms of service—despite the fact that he was then a research fellow at MIT, with authorized access to the involved database. [read post]
14 Aug 2009, 11:07 am
Last fall, the federal court system shut down a pilot program that offered free PACER access at a few libraries around the country after it figured out that Malamud and hacker Aaron Swartz took them at their word and started downloading court decisions by the gigabyte. [read post]
1 Feb 2013, 8:13 am by Steve Schultze
In 2008, my friend Aaron Swartz helped to legally liberate millions of PACER records. [read post]
28 Jul 2011, 7:49 am by cen
On July 19th 2011, Aaron Swartz was criminally charged by the US Attorney General’s office for, effectively, downloading too many academic papers from JSTOR. [read post]
23 Jan 2013, 12:06 pm by Raffaela Wakeman
Here’s Jennifer Martinez of The Hill on the plans; and if you haven’t read the Times‘ piece on how MIT caught Aaron Swartz while using its computer network to download 4.8 million documents, do so. [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 11:24 pm by Marie Louise
The case of Aaron Swartz (1709 Blog) (ArsTechnica) (Likelihood of Confusion) (Copyright Alliance) (Against Monopoly) (Ars Technica) Google v. [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 3:43 pm by Swaraj Paul Barooah
Aaron Swartz's recent suicide has sparked discussion all over the internet, with much of it to do with his  strong belief in the moral imperative of sharing scholarship and making it accessible to all. [read post]