Message: 2
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:02:26 -0500
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] petition to remove Aaron Swartz
prosecutor
To: richa...@fastmail.fm
Cc: full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:34 AM, <richa...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-distric
> t-attorney-carmen-ortiz-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck
>
> Above link to remove this prosecutor needs to have signatures by
> February 11.
Its unfortunate Schwartz committed suicide over the incident.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-0113-aaron-swartz-20130113,0,5232490.story
Jeff
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This is a tragedy caused by the pressure from US authorities. Getting (or
facing) the same imprisonment as a killer (I consider 50 years as the same as
life in prison) is absolutely unfair. He paid ultimate price for what he
believed in. There is no depression in such cases, it is pure pressure coming
from the situation he got in and authorities handling the case. He should be
respected for what he believed and what he paid for.
As my common sense tells me, copying articles is not stealing. 5,000,000 in MIT
possession were very likely already published papers, thus, public domain. If I
come in a library, take a book and copy it, there is no crime in such activity
. I do not get a profit, and neither caused any damage to any person.
Unfortunately, US authorities like such high profile case very much. If
persecuted, a person gets pretty tough imprisonment, and the guy who handled
the case a few more "stars". Personal career advancement is the real reason of
their efforts, not a protection of private property rights.
Regards
Mikhail
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