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Please see your browser settings for this feature. </div> aaron swartz november 8, 1986 – january 11, 2013 memorial program part 1 speakers: danny o'brien taren stinebrickner-kauffman lisa rein seth schoen peter eckersley tim o'reilly molly shaffer van houweling alex stamos cindy cohn brewster kahle carl malamud part 2: open microphone This movie is part of the collection: Community Video Audio/Visual: sound, colorKeywords: Aaron Swartz; Memorial; Internet Archive Creative Commons license: CC0 1.0 Universal Individual Files Write a review Downloaded 8,156 times Reviews Average Rating: and Open Access activist Carl Malamud Rest in Peace.
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.
She said she understood there was anger felt by people who believe her office’s prosecution of Swartz was unwarranted and was tied to his suicide. “I must, however, make clear that this office’s conduct was appropriate in bringing and handling this case,” Ortiz said in an emailed statement. Ortiz had said earlier that “stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars” and that the victim is harmed “whether you sell what you have stolen or give it away.” Guest: 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. If someone is genuinely guilty of something and you bring them up on charges, that’s fine. Amen. 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. In law school, during my time at the Yale ISP, I wrote for and ran LawMeme, a blog about law and technology. (Here’s one of its greatest hits, Ernie Miller’s classic “Top Ten New Copyright Crimes”.) But this meant losing an archive of about fifteen hundred posts. So I took on the task of making a static archive of what could be salvaged from LawMeme.
And so I became a bulk downloader. 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.
Moreover, the fundamental question is why the U.S. Lessons from Kafka: Aaron Swartz and Prosecutorial Overreaching | Litigation & Trial Lawyer Blog. 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. In September 2011, a few months after my post went up, I received an email from Aaron thanking me for my post, and asking, “If you have any time, I’d love to get your thoughts on a few things.
Would it be possible to have a phone call at some point?” Much has been written about his brilliance and his extraordinary curiosity — which he himself said was all that distinguished him from everyone else — and about his uncompromising stances. A few months after we spoke, The Trial showed up on his 2011 Review of Books: 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. Hackers for right, we are one down, we have lost one of our own. Nurtures, careers, listeners, feeders, parents all, we have lost a child. Let us all weep. --Sir Tim Berners Lee, January 11, 2013 Aaron Swartz, a leading activist for open information, internet freedom, and democracy, died at his own hand Friday January 11. Aaron also made gifts of websites the way others might make a friend a plate of brownies.
We first met in the fall of 2004, when he was 18. Two years later, we crossed paths in Boston. We never quite saw eye-to-eye about how best to reform or transform politics, and Aaron several times wrote critical blog posts arguing that open data and government transparency weren't enough to make things change for the better. My core argument is that the problem with our government is not specific misdeeds but systemic corruption. 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. He continued: 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. I loved Aaron. There are no words to can contain love, to cloth it in words is to kill it, to mummify it and hope that somewhere in the heart of a reader, they have the strength and the magic to resurrect it. I can only say I love him. On the last day I saw him, he grabbed me in the rain while my car was blocking the road and held me and said "I love you.
" When he was 20, he carried me through my divorce. He read to me and Ada compulsively; he read me a whole David Foster Wallace book. He loved my daughter so much it filled the room like a mist. More than anything, together we loved the world, with the kind of love that grips and tears. We were destroyed by the investigation, and by enduring so much together in the five years of the difficult love affair of difficult people. 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. I’m reading reactions to his suicide from friends who knew him well. I listen to Drew’s room – our old guest room – hoping to hear silence.
When Aaron stayed here, I remember listening to that room for signs of life. I knew Aaron for about a decade, but I didn’t know Aaron well. Cory Doctorow knew Aaron well and his remembrance rings true to people who knew Aaron: he was complicated, multi-layered, inspiring and frustrating, sometimes all at once. Doc Searls remembers Aaron at 15. Some of those closest to Aaron are angry. I’m angry too. Drew’s asleep now. Rest in peace. Aaron’s obituary in the New York Times.EFF’s farewell to Aaron, by Peter Eckersley.Continuity – Aaron’s instructions from 2002 for keeping his web projects running.
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. But then this morning something happened: I woke up to news—all over Twitter and in my inboxes—that Aaron Swartz, someone I’ve admired for quite some time but could only consider as an acquaintance, had taken his own life.
His is not my story to tell, but for those of you who didn’t know him, I encourage you to read these important, heartbreaking eulogies from Larry Lessig, Cory Doctorow, Ethan Zuckerman, Cyrus Farivar, and Quinn Norton (in addition to the afore-linked by my colleague Peter Eckersley).
En marge du décès d’Aaron Swartz, le site de Gale Cengage hacké à son tour pour libérer le domaine public ! Aaron Swartz est mort, mais ses idées vivent encore ! Les hommages se succèdent, partout sur la Toile, avec notamment l’opération #PDFTribute par laquelle des chercheurs mettent en ligne leurs articles scientifiques ou l’ouverture d’une Aaron Swartz Collection par Internet Archive.
Mais d’autres ont visiblement choisi d’aller plus loin et de mettre en application les préceptes de désobéissance civile énoncés dans l’Open Access Guerilla Manifesto écrit par Swartz. Pour avoir hacké la base de données JSTOR au MIT, dans le but de libérer des articles scientifiques et des textes du domaine public, Aaron Swartz risquait 35 ans de prison et 1 million de dollars d’amende.
Cette menace n’a pas empêché d’autres activistes de hacker à leur tour la semaine dernière les bases de données de la firme Gale Cengage et d’en exposer les contenus en téléchargement sur un faux site, intitulé ironiquement "Gale Digital Collections, Where The Public Domain Lives Online". Par Caroline Léna Becker. Like this: 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. Professor Lessig is a founding board member of Creative Commons, which promotes universal access, innovation and sharing of ideas, and the creator of Rootstrikers, an organization that aims to share stories about government corruption, money and media and work towards practical reform.
Update 27/01/2013 : European Commission VP Neelie Kroes Weighs in on Aaron Swartz Many areas of trouble that might never get cleared. My Aaron Swartz, whom I loved. | Quinn Said. 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. I loved Aaron. There are no words to can contain love, to cloth it in words is to kill it, to mummify it and hope that somewhere in the heart of a reader, they have the strength and the magic to resurrect it. On the last day I saw him, he grabbed me in the rain while my car was blocking the road and held me and said “I love you.” When he was 20, he carried me through my divorce. He read to me and Ada compulsively; he read me a whole David Foster Wallace book. He loved my daughter so much it filled the room like a mist. More than anything, together we loved the world, with the kind of love that grips and tears. We were destroyed by the investigation, and by enduring so much together in the five years of the difficult love affair of difficult people. A part of me died with him. Goodbye Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013 | parker higgins dot net. Processing the loss of Aaron Swartz. 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. 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. News. 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.
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