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Kawoomba comments on Farewell Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) - Less Wrong Discussion

75 Post author: Kawoomba 12 January 2013 10:09AM

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Comment author: Kawoomba 12 January 2013 04:03:45PM 8 points [-]

From the Cory Doctorow link in the OP:

Even though MIT and JSTOR (the journal publisher) backed down, the prosecution kept on. (...) A couple of lawyers close to the case told me that they thought Aaron would go to jail.

Comment author: private_messaging 12 January 2013 05:33:57PM *  6 points [-]

Yes, that's what I was referring to. It is crazy.

Comment author: James_Miller 12 January 2013 06:56:49PM 20 points [-]

JSTOR's first best outcome was probably for Swartz to go to jail while having people think that JSTOR didn't want him to go to jail.

Comment author: David_Gerard 12 January 2013 10:03:22PM 6 points [-]

JSTOR weaseled, but this will follow Kevin Guthrie and Laura Brown for the rest of their lives. As it should.

Comment author: eurg 13 January 2013 05:08:01PM 6 points [-]

Too optimistic.

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