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Aaron Swartz Lawyers Accuse Prosecutor Of Miscon. The Internet's Own Boy. Life Inside the Aaron Swartz Investigation. James Grimmelmann on Aaron Swartz. New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann eulogizes Aaron Swartz, the open information and internet activist who recently committed suicide in the face of a computer trespass prosecution.
Grimmelmann describes Swartz’s journey from “wunderkind prodigy who came out of nowhere when he was 14″ to “classic activist-organizer,” paying special attention to the ideas that motivated his work. According to Grimmelmann, Swartz was primarily interested in power being held by the wrong people and how to overcome it through community organizing. Swartz was dedicated to his personal theory of change and believed that people who know how to use computers have a duty to undermine the closed-access system from within.
It was this ardent belief that led Swartz to surreptitiously download academic articles from JSTOR. Grimmelmann closely analyzes the case, providing a balanced view of both the prosecution’s and Swartz’s view of the issue. Download Related Links Related Episodes. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Congress demands Justice Dept to explain. JSTOR liberator. Federal prosecutor says charges were “appropriate.” Federal Prosecutor Says Aaron Swartz Case Handled Well. Aaron Swartz is pictured at Boston Wiki Meetup in August 2009.
(ragesoss/Flickr) A federal prosecutor criticized over criminal charges against an Internet activist who killed himself in New York says her office’s handling of the case was “appropriate.” U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz on Wednesday extended her “heartfelt sympathy” to Swartz’s loved ones but continued to defend the charges against him and said her office had acted properly. Thoughts on Zoe Lofgren's CFAA Bill: A Great First Step. Yesterday, Representative Zoe Lofgren introduced on Reddit a bill to improve the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the wake of Aaron Swartz's suicide during the pendency of his prosecution for violating various provisions of that law and of the Wire Fraud Act.
I've attached a redline of how her bill would change the current law. This is a welcome and much needed step from a great legislator. There are obvious co-sponsors for this effort, including Darrell Issa (R-Calif) who knew Aaron, and spoke out eloquently about the potential for abuse when prosecutors use long maximum sentences to incentivize guilty pleas from individuals charged for borderline conduct under vague statutes: I’ll make a risky statement here: Overprosecution is a tool often used to get people to plead guilty rather than risk sentencing,” Issa said. “It is a tool of question.
Amen. This formulation doesn't interfere with trade secret protection, copyright or any other law that protects against misuse of information. Lessig Blog, v2.
MIT DDoS. My Career as a Bulk Downloader. The core of the case against Aaron Swartz was that he downloaded millions of academic articles from JSTOR without permission.
He did so by sneaking into an MIT wiring closet and evading MIT’s and JSTOR’s attempts to detect and block him. But the heart of the case, the conduct without which there would have been no point and no problem, was the downloading. To put this in perspective, I, too, am a bulk downloader. James has downloaded his thousands, and Aaron his ten thousands. And there but for the grace of the Assistant United States Attorneys (who wield god-like prosecutorial power), go I. With the CFAA, Law and Justice Are Not The Same: A Response to Orin Kerr. Law Professor and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act expert Orin Kerr wrote today in his usual thorough and well-informed fashion about the legal claims in Aaron Swartz's case.
While his analysis of the law is, as usual, spot on, I nevertheless disagree with its treatment of Aaron's case as routine and, by implication, unremarkable. I am in the process of explaining why , but want to address here a few of Orin's arguments. Orin writes: The indictment against Swartz alleged several different crimes. A bunch of the crimes overlap, but that doesn’t mean that they are really treated separately: At sentencing the general practice is to take the most serious of the crimes as the basis for the sentence and to mostly ignore the rest. But the ordinary practice is to charge all the possible offenses committed in the indictment, even if they overlap, and then let the jury sort them out at trial or else drop some of the charges in a plea deal.
Lessons from Kafka: Aaron Swartz and Prosecutorial Overreaching. Several days later, the sadness over Aaron Swartz’s death — and outrage over the prosecution that his family and friends say played a role — still lingers.
I wrote my thoughts about the meritless Swartz prosecution right after he was indicted in 2011, and have since updated the post to address the information disclosed since his death. But this post isn’t about the details of Swartz’s prosecution, it’s about him and the criminal justice system we built for him. Democratic Promise: Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013. Aaron Swartz at a Boston Wikipedia Meetup, August 2009, By Sage Ross.
Aaron is dead. Wanderers in this crazy world, we have lost a mentor, a wise elder. Aaron Swartz and the Meaning of "Public" To better understand the strong feelings Aaron Swartz had about free access to information, I paid $1.80 to read the indictment that overshadowed him for the last two years of his life.
PACER, the federal courts' online records system, charged me 10 cents per page to download the 18-page document. In it, federal prosecutors accuse Swartz of wire fraud, computer fraud, and other felonies. According to this document, MIT police spotted Swartz on Jan. 6, 2011, and attempted to question him. The indictment says he had spent months using the campus network to download millions of academic articles from JSTOR, the online research archive. Prosecutors allege that this was criminal behavior because he had used his computer skills to thwart attempts to prevent him from accessing JSTOR through MIT's network and because he did some of the downloading through a laptop hidden in a closet on MIT's campus. "Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts U.S.
The U.S. My Aaron Swartz, whom I loved. We used to have a fight about how much the internet would grieve if he died.
Goodbye, Aaron. Posted by Ethan on Jan 12th, 2013 in Personal | 4 comments My son is failing to nap in the bedroom where Aaron Swartz spent a week as houseguest about four years back. On Aaron Swartz. Last night I stayed up too late, drawn into conversation by the right energy and the right amount of wine, with my roommate in Amsterdam where I’m currently attending THNK. I knew that, today (Saturday), I would have to present a project I’ve been thinking about, and I was feeling unprepared.
The project, roughly, is something I’m passionate about: Ensuring that digital natives (or under-30s if you will) fighting for digital rights are well-supported. Later I’ll tell you what that means.
En marge du décès d’Aaron Swartz, le site de Gale Cengage hacké à son tour pour libérer le domaine public ! There is message to decrypt in every act of suicide. Did we get Aaron Swartz’s message. Update 20/02/2013 Yesterday, Professor Lawrence Lessig gave a brilliant lecture following his appointment as Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, titled “Aaron’s Laws: Law and Justice in a Digital Age.” Understanding what Aaron and his fellow were trying to do. What is the value of copyright as opposed to ‘dumb copyright’ and the free access to knowledge. How justice should understand civil desobedience. and where we are going in copyright protection in the digital era were some of the points developped in this speech to be find here.
My Aaron Swartz, whom I loved. We used to have a fight about how much the internet would grieve if he died. I was right, but the last word you get in as the still living is a hollow thing, trailing off, as it does, into oblivion. I love Aaron. Goodbye Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013. The world is poorer place today without Aaron Swartz, an extraordinary hacker and activist who took his own life on Friday. It’s been a roller coaster of a few days as I and the people I know try to process this news, sadness and anger turning to grief and resolve.
There have been many thoughtful tributes to Aaron, who in only 26 years inspired so many with his character and accomplishments: my colleague Peter Eckersley wrote the touching obituary on EFF’s site; Cory Doctorow, Larry Lessig, Quinn Norton, Jillian York, Rainey Reitman, James Grimmelman, Karl Fogel, Brewster Kahle, Rick Perlstein, Danny O’Brien, Tim Berners-Lee, and many more have written beautiful words that do as much as possible to sum up a truly extraordinary life. It’s a tragedy that he is gone, and another tragedy that we’ve lost the next 50 or so years of Aaron that we might have had. At 26 he had already committed a decade and a half to creating amazing work in the name of causes he supported. Processing the loss of Aaron Swartz. The last 24 hours have been an emotional roller coaster. Aaron Swartz, Was 26.
Some Thoughts On Aaron Swartz. Aaron Swartz works with Internet Archive. JSTOR statement. US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide. Aaron Swartz & JSTOR. #pdf Tribute. Aaron Swartz - #Pdftribute. Le racket de l'édition scientifique. Le quotidien Libération a aimablement publié hier, vendredi 14 octobre (p. 22), sous le titre « les rapaces de l'édition scientifique » une tribune où je déplorais l'exploitation des institutions de recherche et, partant, du contribuable, par les grands éditeurs commerciaux de revues scientifiques. Cela fait déjà un certain nombre d'années que je m'intéresse aux questions de droit d'auteur ainsi qu'à l'accès des scientifiques, mais aussi du public, aux publications scientifiques.
Dès les débuts de mon activité de recherche et de publication, j'ai été quelque peu surpris que les éditeurs me demandent de renoncer, par document signé, à presque tous mes droits sur mes articles, au point même que si j'avais suivi rigoureusement ce qui m'était imposé, je n'aurais pu mettre mes propres articles sur mon propre site Web professionnel. Witter / GMTine : @Calimaq Lionel, vous croyez ... Official Statement from the family and partner of Aaron Swartz (Remember Aaron Swartz)
Internet activist Aaron Swartz dead at 26 - Americas.
The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s “Crime” « Unhandled Exception. RIP, Aaron Swartz. Declan McCullagh - Google+ - This is terribly sad news: Aaron Swartz committed suicide… Farewell to Aaron Swartz, an extraordinary hacker and activist. Lessig Blog, v2. Aaronsw. Aaron Swartz professor Lawrence Lessig blames prosecutors for suicide. Aaron Swartz, qui avait défié JSTOR en libérant des articles du domaine public, s’est suicidé.
MIT to investigate its role. Official Statement from the family and partner of Aaron Swartz. Remembering Aaron. The December 2010 Black Hole in the Network Interface Closet. HADOPI, ACTA, Digital Economy Bill: From Human Rights to Economic Rights.