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minus-squareBruhh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoIf I remember correctly, it wasn’t even illegal since these scientific articles should have been public to begin with because they used public funds.
minus-squareSparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year agoThat may be so, but IIRC he was charged with breaking into MIT’s networking room and illegally tapping into their network to get the articles: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261840/Aaron-Swartz-MIT-surveillance-shot-ruined-tragic-Reddit-founders-life.html
minus-squareK0W4L5K1@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThat also may be so, but 35 years is fucked up for that. pretty sure child porn first time offenders is like 15 to 30 so hacking MIT for stuff that should have been free gets you more jail time then a first CP offence. OK thats fucked up
If I remember correctly, it wasn’t even illegal since these scientific articles should have been public to begin with because they used public funds.
That may be so, but IIRC he was charged with breaking into MIT’s networking room and illegally tapping into their network to get the articles:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261840/Aaron-Swartz-MIT-surveillance-shot-ruined-tragic-Reddit-founders-life.html
That also may be so, but 35 years is fucked up for that. pretty sure child porn first time offenders is like 15 to 30 so hacking MIT for stuff that should have been free gets you more jail time then a first CP offence. OK thats fucked up