They should have called it a misdemeanor, given him a fine and told him to be good from now on. The idea that he "stole" academic articles is a little strange, anyway. If you have a printed book, and I steal it from you, then I have the book and you do not. But if I "steal" articles from the JSTOR database, those articles still remain in that database, exactly where they were before.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" wrote: > > "Swartz, 26, who was found dead of an apparent suicide > Friday in his Brooklyn home, was facing trial in April > for allegedly stealing millions of scholarly journal > articles from the digital archive JSTOR using MIT's > network." > > 'MIT Refused To Support Push To Keep Aaron Swartz Out > Of Prison, Lawyer Says' > Huffington Post, January 14, 2013 > http://tinyurl.com/a6gxb8x >
