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Subject: Copyright, hacking and Aaron Swartz
Written By: ChuckyG on 07/21/11 at 8:20 pm
A self-styled digital Robin Hood downloaded more than 4 million academic articles before being tracked down by US authorities in a case that promises to become a cause célèbre for data use and freedom of information.
A grand jury in Massachusetts has indicted Aaron Swartz, a 24-year-old programmer and fellow at Harvard University's Safra Centre for Ethics, on charges of wire and computer fraud for his marathon downloading spree.
Harvard's Aaron Swartz indicted on MIT hacking charges
Follow that up today with the following from another individual
This archive contains 18,592 scientific publications totaling 33GiB, all from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and which should be available to everyone at no cost, but most have previously only been made available at high prices through paywall gatekeepers like JSTOR.
Papers from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society I generally won't allow torrent links or other types of sharing sites linked here, but we can make an exception for this one. If only to provide a means for people to read the essay in the description of the torrent.
Subject: Re: Copyright, hacking and Aaron Swartz
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 07/21/11 at 9:13 pm
In my day the grad students used to just check books out of the library and never bring them back!
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And fug JSTOR. There are all these great papers out there on every subject JSTOR keeps under lock and key...
Yeah, well, I don't wanna write it down and drag my ass to the university library. I want to read it right here on my desktop. But noooooo.....
Three cheers for Swartz!
8)
Subject: Re: Copyright, hacking and Aaron Swartz
Written By: Don Carlos on 07/22/11 at 10:28 am
As the author of a number of journal articles, I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, sure I want my stuff read. On the other, subscribe to the dam journal for christ sake, or go to the bloody library
Subject: Re: Copyright, hacking and Aaron Swartz
Written By: ChuckyG on 07/22/11 at 4:40 pm
As the author of a number of journal articles, I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, sure I want my stuff read. On the other, subscribe to the dam journal for christ sake, or go to the bloody library
these articles though were all published before 1923, and should be 100% out of copyright.
Subject: Re: Copyright, hacking and Aaron Swartz
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 07/22/11 at 9:05 pm
As the author of a number of journal articles, I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, sure I want my stuff read. On the other, subscribe to the dam journal for christ sake, or go to the bloody library
I know why they do it, but as a casual browser it sucks to get a tease from JSTOR and not get the information I've whetted my appetite for. It was far less of an issue before the Internet...of course then you could get your references through Info-Track but the nearest copy of the article might be 400 miles away!
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these articles though were all published before 1923, and should be 100% out of copyright.
Not much use for scientific articles, unless you do curriculum development for the Texas public schools!
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Subject: Re: Copyright, hacking and Aaron Swartz
Written By: Don Carlos on 07/23/11 at 10:41 am
these articles though were all published before 1923, and should be 100% out of copyright.
Oh, I didn't realize that. I thought some of the stuff was recent