http://boingboing.net/2015/01/26/barrett-browns-sentence-is.html
By Trevor Timm
Jan 26, 2015
Investigative journalist Barrett Brown was sentenced to an obscene 63
months in prison on Thursday, in part for sharing a hyperlink to a stolen
document that he did not steal, and despite the fact that he was not
guilty of a crime for linking to it.
Maybe journalists think this is an anomaly, and some will ignore his case
entirely since Brown also pled guilty to other charges that led to part of
his sentence too. But be warned: if the White House passes its dramatic
expansion of US computer law, journalists will constantly be under similar
threat and reporting on hacked documents could become a crime.
How is this possible, you ask? Well, first it’s important to understand
the details of Brown’s case.
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