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[-] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago

I feel like they should be paying more per thing viewed than I do as a human

They pressured the RSS guy to kill himself for scraping stuff and freely sharing, by threatening him with a stupid amount of jail time.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

RIP Aaron Swartz

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

the RSS guy to kill himself for scraping stuff and freely sharing, by threatening him with a stupid amount of jail time.

which guy was this?

[-] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago

Aaron Schwartz. Had some dubious libertarian-approaching ideas but he believed in total freedom of information. He downloaded and redistributed a shitload of content off JSTOR illegally because he felt that paywalling scientific studies was bad, was caught, and committed suicide when facing an unbelievably harsh sentence from a rabid DA.

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