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- A week ago, Aaron Swartz -- social activist, geek genius -- took his own life...Facing the choice between...accept the label "felon" and go to jail or fight a million-dollar lawsuit against 13 felony indictments...
- Aaron's alleged "crime" was that he used MIT's network to access a database of academic journal articles (JSTOR) and download millions of those articles to his laptop computer.
- Swartz was not a copyright anarchist
- All the government had to show to launch its witch hunt...was that he had violated JSTOR's "terms of service" and taken (as in copied) something worth more than $5,000.
- American law does not typically make the breach of a contract a felony.
- A breach of contract is a breach of contract. It is not an act of treason. It is not a threat to the realm.
- Aaron Swartz is dead -- in my view, in part because of this breach of its duty by the government.
Swartz got SOPA stopped. The government didn't like that, so they tried to make an example of him. That's what I think.
Now they want your guns. Swartz is one more reason why you don't give them your guns.
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