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When corporations scrape academic papers, it's justified. When individuals do it, it's inexcusable. (lemmy.ml)

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[+] [email protected] -6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because he literally broke into a server room and installed hardware to harvest this data.

There's no world where any organization, for profit or otherwise, would tolerate that. Even your local library would call the damn cops if you tried that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Disgusting bootlicker spotted. For context:

After state prosecutors dropped their charges, federal prosecutors filed a superseding indictment adding nine more felony counts, which increased Swartz's maximum criminal exposure to 50 years of imprisonment and $1 million in fines.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You call the other person a name

You don’t respond to anything they say directly

You do it twice in the same thread

You call something context without providing context