Archive for July 20th, 2011
Stranger Than Fiction
My head’s been buzzing since I first read yesterday on the New York Times Bits Blog that coder and activist Aaron Swartz was indicted under federal hacking laws for illegally downloading millions of articles from JSTOR (the full text of the indictment is embedded at the bottom of the post). Since then I’ve read through [...]
Posted: 20 July, 2011 in Information Ethics, Open Access.
Tags: Aaron Swartz, downloading, journal articles, JSTOR, licenses, scholarly journals
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