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[-] Xanza@lemm.ee 324 points 4 months 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.

[-] IllNess@infosec.pub 73 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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?

[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 4 months ago

No, he's part of the US oligarchy. Don't criticize too much or you might happen to have sudden, unexplainable tech problems and legal trouble. /s

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