• Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
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    23 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.

    • tate@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      23 days ago

      I’m with you right up to the ageism. The folks who persecuted Aaron were older than him, but they were not boomers, and what they did had nothing to do with his age or theirs.

      Bigotry is always wrong.

    • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
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      23 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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        23 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.

  • ertai@programming.devEnglish
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    23 days ago

    Goes to show how much of a joke copyright is. These laws are bought by and made to protect the interests of corporations. disgusting. rip aaron schwarz, your ideas live on.