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[-] Xanza@lemm.ee 321 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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?

[-] sus@programming.dev 52 points 1 month ago

Spotify also originally got all its music by pirating it. But later it started printing money for record labels (while fucking over musicians) so all was forgiven.

[-] 3dmvr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

and youtube got big hosting everything, they took years to take down hella anime, movies, etc.

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