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Yeah but he was a lefty libertarian who believed publicly funded research should be publicly available. If he were doing it for profit he wouldn’t have had any problems.
It doesn’t matter what he believed. They wanted to make an example of him and build their carriers thanks to that example. The only people they went after this hard were Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.
Didn’t they want to make an example of him because of what he believed in?
Use a vpn. A good one.
This just makes me think that we should feel less guilty for pirating. They’ve set a precedent, right?
I don’t feel guilty when pirating. I’m just copying files.
The documentary about him is heart-breaking. I highly recommend it.
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
While I was aware of this I did not make the connetion and Im a bit ashamed to say I forgot about him. Need to add him to the mental wall of heores with luigi and ed. So aaron, ed, and luigi.
ed?
Snowden, of course.
Oh god… I was at a small party this weekend and my wife mentioned Snowden only for the entire group of people to have no idea who he was. We had to explain how he was the NSA whistleblower who let us all know about the global surveillance that’s actively happening. They didn’t believe us… It made us extremely sad =(
He was using them for academic purposes, which should have been covered under fair use too, makes the whole thing extra fucked up.
According to the college it was, according to the FBI they were going to prosecute him federally anyway.
This is the first post I’ve seen where my app (Boost) has shown the vote score as simply: 1k
Congrats guys. Lemmy is growing
Aaron Schwartz and Ian Murdock are the two people I have never met I truly mourn to this day. So much good that was just not compatible with this shitty world.
even if they do get punished it will just be a fine which is like a pocket change for them
The difference is Aaron Schwartz was going to use it for good, while Meta is almost certainly only going to be using it for evil.
