[elviejo]

Nice it only took a global pandemic to accomplish the free sharing of information that Aaron Swartz was trying to accomplish:

"In 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet, and setting it to download academic journal articles systematically from JSTOR...

Swartz declined a plea bargain under which he would have served six months in federal prison. Two days after the prosecution rejected a counter-offer by Swartz, he was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment, where he had hanged himself."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

[zozbot234]

Aaron Swartz was trying to share pre-1923 articles (this was basically the cutoff for public domain content in the U.S. at the time, ignoring more challenging issues such as whether the copyright was renewed and whether that actually means that a post-1920s item might be in the public domain). JSTOR has actually been making that content broadly available for quite some time.

[cjbprime]

I think you've confused Aaron Swartz with Greg Maxwell.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110912/10132515906/jstor...