Huxley vs. Orwell - which dystopia wins?
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We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world.
Aaron’s death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s office and at MIT contributed to his death. The US Attorney’s office pursued an exceptionally harsh array of charges, carrying potentially over 30 years in prison, to punish an alleged crime that had no victims. Meanwhile, unlike JSTOR, MIT refused to stand up for Aaron and its own community’s most cherished principles.
-Official statement from the family and partner of Aaron Swartz
http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/post/40373383323/official-statement-from-the-family-and-partner-of
(via howiesblog)The Truth About Aaron Swartz's "Crime"
By Alex Stamos, who was to be the expert witness for the defense in Swartz’s upcoming federal trial. The essay does not go into copyright issues at all, but methodically examines the allegations that Swartz broke into a computer network.
Aaron Swartz R.I.P
Researchers begin posting article PDFs to twitter in #pdftribute to Aaron Swartz
Good.
Look, obviously: if you need an article from JSTOR and can’t get it, message me with a clear citation that makes it easy to search for, and I’ll send it to you. This privative bullshit is just comical. Except tragic too: Aaron Swartz should never have had to think twice about this. And really, if you are an academic with access, might you post this message as well, and regularly?
