• Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Not to mention that Swartz had a JSTOR account, which means he was legally entitled to download the things that he did. The part they didn’t like was that he used scripts to download en-mass, and a bunch of boomer fucks thought he actually committed a crime.

    • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
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      15 days ago

      Well in the Social Network movie and chapter 2 of the Accidental Billionaires, Mark Zuckerberg used wget in shell scripts to get copyrighted images for private servers.

      Can we give punish him?

      • sus@programming.devEnglish
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        15 days ago

        Spotify also originally got all its music by pirating it. But later it started printing money for record labels (while fucking over musicians) so all was forgiven.

  • Detun3d@lemm.eeEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Important to note Aaron was helping democratize information while companies like Meta, Amazon, Google and Microsoft just centralize, twist and redact information to monetize access to a dumbed down and censored version of it.