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Lessig on "Aaron's Laws - Law and Justice in a Digital Age" Avec le suicide d’Aaron Swartz, le MIT a-t-il perdu son âme ? - L'actu Médias / Net. Tag - AaronSwartz. Si je me fais renverser par un camion... par Aaron Swartz (à 16 ans) Au delà de l’émotion des circonstances, voici la traduction d’une note d’Aaron Swartz qui pose la question du devenir de nos données après notre mort. Et pour ce qui concerne le code, le léguer à la FSF est une bonne idée ;) Cet article est rangé dans le répertoire « 2002 » de son site. Il avait alors 16 ans ! Si je me fais renverser par un camion… If I get hit by a truck… Aaron Swartz - 2002 - Site personnel(Traduction : Moosh, lgodard, zozio nocture (aka brandelune), aKa, Sky) Si je me fais renverser par un camion… lisez cette page.

Il y a une vieille blague chez les programmeurs sur qui va gérer le code si son auteur se fait renverser par un camion. Je désigne Sean B. Je demande que le contenu de tous mes disques durs soit rendu public sur aaronsw.com. Web.Resource.org Sean (ou la personne qu’il désignera) deviendra le nouveau webmaster. Code Source Le copyright pour mon code source sous GPL doit être transféré à la Free Software Foundation. Pour le reste, envoyez un e-mail à Sean. Aaron Swartz. Aaron Swartz Social Profile: RIP Reddit Founder Swartz, Dead at 26. aNewDomain.net — The founder of Reddit, Brooklyn-based activist Aaron Swartz, is dead, New York Medical Examiner office reps and Swartz’ attorney confirmed.

Swartz committed suicide by hanging, attorney Elliot Peters wrote in an email. His body was discovered in his Brooklyn apartment this weekend. January 13, 2013 Update: Anonymous has reportedly hacked MIT, whose investigation kicked off a major federal case against him. The claims in the Anonymous hack echo family comments that the government was using Swartz as an example and throwing the book at him with all its might. The full text of the case documents involved, which shows the Secret Service got involved in what appears to be a run of the mill milking of unsensitive MIT docs from a server, are below. Scroll below for glimpses at the late Aaron Swartz social profile as revealed on his LinkedIn, Twitter, Raw Meat quote blog, pinboard, and other social accounts.

His personal website at aaronsw.com talks more about his activist aims. Aaron Swartz, les mystères d'un idéaliste. Le 4 janvier 2013, Aaron Swartz s’est réveillé d’excellente humeur. «Il s’est tourné vers moi», se rappelle sa petite amie Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, «et a déclaré de but en blanc: “Cette année va être géniale”.» Swartz avait des raisons d’être optimiste. Depuis un an et demi, il était mis en examen pour fraude informatique, épreuve apparemment interminable qui avait épuisé ses ressources tant financières qu’émotionnelles. Mais il avait de nouveaux avocats, qui travaillaient dur pour trouver un terrain d’entente avec le gouvernement.

Peut-être allaient-ils conclure un accord acceptable. Peut-être iraient-ils devant les tribunaux et gagneraient-ils. publicité «On va gagner, et je vais me remettre à travailler sur toutes les choses qui m’intéressent», avait confié Swartz à sa petite amie ce jour-là. Cheerios sans rien et pizza au fromage Swartz et Stinebrickner-Kauffman avaient commencé 2013 par des vacances au ski dans le Vermont. La possibilité d’un mariage Des questions sans réponses.

Aaron Swartz Was Right - The Chronicle Review. By Peter Ludlow The suicide of the Internet wunderkind Aaron Swartz has given rise to a great deal of discussion, much of it centered on whether the penalty sought against him by the prosecutor was proportional to his "crime. " The consensus so far has been that Swartz did something wrong by accessing and releasing millions of academic papers from the JSTOR archive. But perhaps it is time to ask whether Swartz did in fact act wrongly. We might entertain the possibility that Swartz's act of civil disobedience was an attempt to help rectify a harm that began long ago. To put it bluntly, the current state of academic publishing is the result of a series of strong-arm tactics enabling publishers to pry copyrights from authors, and then charge exorbitant fees to university libraries for access to that work. He laid the philosophical groundwork back in 2008, in an essay entitled "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto.

" "Information is power," he wrote. "There is no justice in following unjust laws. Life — Image Atlas. Why Aaron Swartz’s Ideas Matter. Swartz spoke at the Freedom to Connect conference in Washington, D.C., in May 2012. Aaron Swartz, a precocious and uncompromising digital activist, tragically took his own life last Friday. He was just 26. Swartz clearly touched the lives of those who knew him well in unique and wonderful ways, and the tributes posted online are testament to a special human being. But those who never knew him were affected as well—through the technologies he developed, his contributions to projects such as Wikipedia and the Internet Archive, and his untiring efforts to create a new understanding of digital rights and ownership, most prominently by helping create the Creative Commons. In February of last year we interviewed him about his philosophy, and about his involvement in the campaign opposing SOPA, a bill that would’ve imposed more stringent rules on the sharing of digital information online (see “Aaron Swartz Hacks the Attention Economy”).