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[dion09529]

in other words... In late 2010 and early 2011, Aaron Swartz downloaded a large number of scientific articles from JSTOR, with the intention of making them public. At the age of 24, Swartz had more action in favor of freedom of information, the most important probably being involved in stopping SOPA the very harsh and abusive bill to combat "piracy", and publication 2.7 million legal documents that were public in theory, but in practice could only be accessed in a very expensive manner. Also, he was the author of a short and comprehensive manifesto against limiting the access to information and knowledge.

[Skiz]

[IdolEyes787]

Dion just wanted to make sure that in his absence things hadn't changed and everyone still views him as a tool.

[Mr. Mulder]

Dion just wanted to prove that he can copy & paste with the best of them in the anti-security movement without truly understanding anything.

He would have taken a short break from browsing gay-torture-porn and stumbled across something on Wired or Digg or The Guardian that had anti-sec/anon in the title, then he would have remember "Hey, that's the stuff i pretend to care about!"

He then would have skimmed the article (whilst patting the damp patch on his trousers with an old t-shirt) only reading the choice parts displayed in bold, he’d then copy those megabytes up only to dump them in a highly irrelevant place, destroying all context thus taking everything away from a sad story.

Did dion skip the part where Aaron killed himself? Rather than spend 35 years in prison. Probably, but when your avatar has an anon mask and your copy and paste skills are tighter than a newborns, what does it matter...

[megabyteme]

Did dion skip the part where Aaron killed himself?

Geesh. How about a [spoiler] tag before you go ruining the surprise ending next time.

[TheFoX]

[IdolEyes787]

Did dion skip the part where Aaron killed himself? Rather than spend 35 years in prison. .

Apparently the internet does a good job of killing the spark that fuels the human spirit.

I'm pretty sure that less intelligent,less admired, less well heeled soldiers lying there with their legs blown off and drowning in their own blood or cancer ravaged single moms lying in agony in their sterile hospital beds pleading to God for but one more moment of precious breath,view this Aaron guy (regardless of what less than fair thing might have befallen him) as a bit of a ungrateful,cowardly and selfish tool.*



*Please disregard above rant if it comes to light that he was really killed by a CIA assassin.

[Mr. Mulder]

The important thing here is that dion read half an article about it, he might even watch the crowd funded documentary about it if it ever gets released, or he might even watch a trailer for it on youtube. Or he might even bookmark the trailer. Or he might even watch Taylor Swift music videos on youtube. Worst case scenario, he gets a new laptop and doesn't back-up his bookmarks. But Taylor Swifts music will live on, and that's what’s important here.

[dion09529]

in other words... In late 2010 and early 2011, Aaron Swartz downloaded a large number of scientific articles from JSTOR, with the intention of making them public. At the age of 24, Swartz had more action in favor of freedom of information, the most important probably being involved in stopping SOPA the very harsh and abusive bill to combat "piracy", and publication 2.7 million legal documents that were public in theory, but in practice could only be accessed in a very expensive manner. Also, he was the author of a short and comprehensive manifesto against limiting the access to information and knowledge.

If for the last action, the publication of legal documents, the FBI failed, ultimately, to find sufficient legal grounds to impeach him for downloading JSTOR articles, prosecutors worked very hard, Swartz's indictments blamed on totaling 50 years in prison plus a huge fine. Meanwhile, prosecutors offered a sentence of six months in prison provided admitting guilt. If Swartz wouldn't have pleaded guilty and was sentenced, his lawyer argued that prosecutors should be required 7-8 years in prison, other experts said it could take more. Very significant is that the inquiry was taken from the beginning by the Secret Service, which says a lot about the importance given by the government, not just for this case, but the issue in general.

[Artemis]

Well that made fuck all sense.....