Nick on Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:07:13 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> Aaron Swartz charged for downloading too many Journal articles from the Library: Please sign suport petition. |
I've never understood how jstor can claim to limit access to journal articles. Aren't they publically funded? Even if not, charging huge fees (and in so doing stopping access from the vast majority who aren't affiliated with a university) for works created (one hopes) for the purposes of sharing knowledge, and without any payment to the author, seems so obviously poisonous it's shocking there isn't louder dissent (or maybe I just haven't had my ear to the right places). Regardless of whether it's the US Government or Jstor who are punishing him (though admittedly I don't understand the reasoning allowing government involvement; this is after all surely a civil issue, not a criminal one, legally), the fault lies with jstor for defaulting to 'locking the articles away' in the first place. /me wonders how difficult it is to bypass the access restrictions of jstor... # 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