[fossaegean] Aaron Swartz (1986-2013)

[Antonis Konstantinos Tzorvas]

quoted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSTOR
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On July 19, 2011, internet activist Aaron Swartz was charged with data
theft in relation to bulk-downloading academic journal articles from
JSTOR.[9][10] According to the indictment against him, Swartz
surreptitiously attached a laptop to MIT's computer network, which
allowed him to "rapidly download an extraordinary volume of articles
from JSTOR".[11] Prosecutors in the case say Swartz acted with the
intention of making the papers available on P2P file-sharing
sites.[12] Swartz surrendered to authorities, pleaded not guilty to
all counts and was released on $100,000 bail. Two days later, on July
21, Greg Maxwell published a torrent file of a 32-GB archive of 18,592
academic papers from JSTOR's Royal Society collection, via The Pirate
Bay, in protest against Swartz' prosecution.[13][14] The case was
still pending when Swartz committed suicide in January 2013.

>From September 6, 2011, JSTOR has made some public domain content
freely available to anyone.[15] JSTOR stated that they had been
working on making it free for some time, and the Swartz controversy
made them "press ahead" with the initiative.[16]

JSTOR has been used as a resource for linguistics research to
investigate trends in language use over time.[17]
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https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6554331/Papers_from_Philosophical_Transactions_of_the_Royal_Society__fro

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Antonis Konstantinos Tzorvas
<antonis at tzorvas.com> wrote:
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> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/aaron-swartz/
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> btw, πρώτη φορά είδα για το web.py και δηλώνω ερωτευμένος
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> co-founder και του http://www.reddit.com/
> notable site, και με πολύ μεγάλη "θεματολογία" - σχεδόν τα πάντα.
> i.e. http://www.reddit.com/r/python
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> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Papamanoli Sofia <icsd07098 at icsd.aegean.gr> wrote:
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>> - http://webpy.org/
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>> - http://qblog.aaronsw.com/
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> Konstantinos Antonios Tzorvas
> Student, Dept. of Information and Communication Systems Engineering
> University of the Aegean
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> Email: antonis at tzorvas.com




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Konstantinos Antonios Tzorvas
Student, Dept. of Information and Communication Systems Engineering
University of the Aegean
Karlovassi, Samos, GR-83200, Greece
Email: antonis at tzorvas.com