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by Deutscher 5447 days ago
33. Swartz intended to distribute a significant portion of JSTOR’s archive of digitized journal articles through one or more file-sharing sites.

How do they know this? Has he said something to that effect?

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Well, I'm going to guess that the prosecution is putting that in there just in case they can get the jury to agree. They can claim anything they want, the jury has to decide if it's true without a doubt.
Um, I don't know, maybe because he wrote a manifesto to that effect and has circulated various methods for doing so? He was sponsoring a google group for article requests for awhile. Seems to be gone now.