From an email sent on September 29, 2010, one JSTOR employee wrote to MIT: provided as incriminating evidence against Aaron Swartz. estimating 3.5 million PDF files had been downloaded.
13 Aug 2013 The first batch of 23 Jul 2011 After being caught, Swartz returned the hard drive containing the downloaded documents to JSTOR who intend not to pursue civil litigation 20 Jan 2013 [Aaron Swartz worked for and with the Internet Archive for years.] confusion may have that lead a library (JSTOR) to track down a user, have led that do repetitive actions like downloading many documents from a website. 19 Jul 2013 What's In Secret Aaron Swartz Files That MIT Doesn't Want Us To See? What's In Swartz downloaded and shared in bulk academic papers that MIT was keeping inside its publicly accessible JSTOR database. [Image: By The report documents that Swartz engaged in this activity on at least three separate When did MIT learn that Aaron Swartz was behind the JSTOR downloads? It isn't a crime to download entire articles from JSTOR; in fact, many of us Labeled as an “Internet Folk hero” and “hacktivist,” Aaron Swartz is not new to the he downloaded close to 20 million pages of court documents for a project that
11 Jan 2014 The day marked the one-year anniversary of Aaron Swartz's suicide. Aaron Swartz who downloaded 4.8 millions files from JSTOR and fought Watch This Film About Why Aaron Swartz Matters More Than Ever MIT Files Court Papers “Partially” Opposing Release Of Documents About Aaron Swartz 12 Jan 2013 JSTOR says it mourns 'tragic loss' of Aaron Swartz he stole 4 million documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and JSTOR, Swartz returned the files after he was caught, but it is generally assumed that he planned to distribute some of the downloaded articles online. Although JSTOR On January 11, 26-year-old hacker, programmer, and activist Aaron Swartz He had a history of depression and faced federal prosecution for downloading millions of ar millions of articles from the online academic article repository JSTOR. prosecutors allege that he was gonna upload them to file-sharing websites. 25 Feb 2013 The suicide of the Internet wunderkind Aaron Swartz has given rise to a First, for the most part the articles in JSTOR were written with And you have: trading passwords with colleagues, filling download requests for friends.
11 Jan 2014 The day marked the one-year anniversary of Aaron Swartz's suicide. Aaron Swartz who downloaded 4.8 millions files from JSTOR and fought Watch This Film About Why Aaron Swartz Matters More Than Ever MIT Files Court Papers “Partially” Opposing Release Of Documents About Aaron Swartz 12 Jan 2013 JSTOR says it mourns 'tragic loss' of Aaron Swartz he stole 4 million documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and JSTOR, Swartz returned the files after he was caught, but it is generally assumed that he planned to distribute some of the downloaded articles online. Although JSTOR On January 11, 26-year-old hacker, programmer, and activist Aaron Swartz He had a history of depression and faced federal prosecution for downloading millions of ar millions of articles from the online academic article repository JSTOR. prosecutors allege that he was gonna upload them to file-sharing websites.
14 Jan 2013 Aaron Swartz's Suicide Prompts MIT Soul-Searching least one occasion and hooked up a laptop in order to download JSTOR files, before he Library licensing and criminal law: The Aaron Swartz case. network and began systematically downloading articles from the JSTOR archive. the prosecution alleges that Swartz intended to distribute the downloaded documents publicly. 10 Dec 2013 It is enormously tempting to say “just use Project Muse and JSTOR articles” and be done with it. a young activist named Aaron Swartz took his own life last January. Swartz downloaded, without proper authorization, a great many downloaded and distributed millions of federal court documents in the 28 Jan 2013 The death of Aaron Swartz earlier this month marks an important while it ran a program to automatically download articles from JSTOR, computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars. 11 Mar 2013 When Internet activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide, he faced federal charges for illegally downloading and releasing articles from JSTOR, the digital library of academic journals. He did download these files. But in the
10 Dec 2013 It is enormously tempting to say “just use Project Muse and JSTOR articles” and be done with it. a young activist named Aaron Swartz took his own life last January. Swartz downloaded, without proper authorization, a great many downloaded and distributed millions of federal court documents in the
