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There’s more info and context, but that the broad strokes. Fuck MIT for pushing his prosecution, JSTOR was fine once he stopped uploading their database
There is actually speculation that he never intended to dump the files online for free. He was working on information research at the time.
I mean, I think we know he probably did, unfortunately.
He believed he was facing a lifetime in prison.
And the people pushing for that punishment were the ones that caused it, pushing someone into committing suicide is as good murder
his blood is on their hands
Who is this Deeps Tate guy you're talking about? I thought there were only two dipshits.
Deep State is older brother to Firefly actress Jewel Staite, and belligerent younger brother Islamic State.
In the same way that whistleblowing or "leaking" evidence of a crime is punished far more severely than any crime. It's basically a death sentence.
that’s very fucked up
i’d say to him to install a small computer or something (raspi?), leave it there and leak the pdfs slowly - would take weeks, maybe months
Unless you misplaced a decimal point somewhere and we're pretty sure they're gonna notice 80,000 PDFs copied! D:
You'd need a time machine in order to go back in time to warn a presently deceased person about certain events before they happen. I don't see how you needed someone to explain this to you.
You don't see how someone with a time machine can go back in time (with aforementioned time machine) and warn Aaron Swartz to stay away from the cabinet?
I didn't know this was saying that. I thought they were film references or something. "Here's what girls do in time travel films, here's what guys do."
If I remember correctly it relates to the death of the other reddit founder. The not spithead one.
There is a documentary about him. Be ready to get punched right in the feels.
