Pranesh Prakash on Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:11:11 +0200 (CEST) |
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http://goo.gl/SiGGj (PDF) "In all, [Aaron] Swartz stole approximately 4.8 million articles, a major portion of the total archive in which JSTOR had invested... Swartz intended to distribute a significant portion of JSTOR's archive of digitized journal articles through one or more file-sharing sites" And finally, > 36. The Grand Jury realleges and incorporates by reference the allegations in > paragraphs 1-33 of this Indictment and charges that: > > From on or about September 24, 2010, through January 6, 2011, or thereabout, > in the District of Massachusetts and elsewhere, the defendant, > > AARON SWARTZ, > > intentionally accessed a computer -- namely, a computer on MIT's computer network and a > computer on JSTOR's network -- without authorization and in excess of authorized access, and > thereby obtained from a protected computer information whose value exceeded $5,000 -- > namely, digitized journal articles from JSTOR's archive --- and aided and abetted the same. > > All in violation of 18 U.S.C. ?? 1030(a)(2), (c)(2)(B)(iii) and 2. -- Pranesh Prakash Programme Manager Centre for Internet and Society W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283 # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org