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minus-squareBruhh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up115arrow-down3·7 months agoIf I remember correctly, it wasn’t even illegal since these scientific articles should have been public to begin with because they used public funds.
minus-squareSparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up59arrow-down1·edit-27 months agoThat may be so, but IIRC he was charged with breaking into MIT’s networking room and illegally tapping into their network to get the articles: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261840/Aaron-Swartz-MIT-surveillance-shot-ruined-tragic-Reddit-founders-life.html
minus-squareRGB3x3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down11·7 months agoWell that’s definitely burying the lede from the OP. It wasn’t the sharing part they had a problem with, it was the B&E and hacking.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·7 months agoThat’s still a hell of a sentence for a B&E
minus-squareDkarma@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down3·edit-27 months agoMost of these guys they just offer jobs to. This was needless. No wonder China is kicking our ass on the cyber front
minus-squaremeliaesc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoMm. Breaking and entering to share publicly funded research is different than B&E with the threat of violence…
minus-squareK0W4L5K1@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down1·7 months agoThat also may be so, but 35 years is fucked up for that. pretty sure child porn first time offenders is like 15 to 30 so hacking MIT for stuff that should have been free gets you more jail time then a first CP offence. OK thats fucked up
minus-squareivofcups@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoParadoxically, that’s not how science jourals work. There are no difference between public or prívate funds in this regard.
If I remember correctly, it wasn’t even illegal since these scientific articles should have been public to begin with because they used public funds.
That may be so, but IIRC he was charged with breaking into MIT’s networking room and illegally tapping into their network to get the articles:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261840/Aaron-Swartz-MIT-surveillance-shot-ruined-tragic-Reddit-founders-life.html
Well that’s definitely burying the lede from the OP.
It wasn’t the sharing part they had a problem with, it was the B&E and hacking.
That’s still a hell of a sentence for a B&E
Most of these guys they just offer jobs to. This was needless. No wonder China is kicking our ass on the cyber front
Mm. Breaking and entering to share publicly funded research is different than B&E with the threat of violence…
That also may be so, but 35 years is fucked up for that. pretty sure child porn first time offenders is like 15 to 30 so hacking MIT for stuff that should have been free gets you more jail time then a first CP offence. OK thats fucked up
Paradoxically, that’s not how science jourals work. There are no difference between public or prívate funds in this regard.