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Re:To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab by tzs on Sunday August 16, 2020 @12:23AM (#24175091)
> And Swartz’s death was caused by JSTOR

Huh? What in JSTOR's behavior [1] do you think caused Swartz's death?

[1] https://docs.jstor.org/summary.html

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Re:To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab by mrgordon on Sunday August 16, 2020 @01:47AM (#24175532)
By their own account, “We also reiterated our desire that MIT identify the individual(s) responsible”

They pushed for aggressive chasing down of an individual for stealing some articles that were largely publicly funded as I recall. This escalated to the FBI and led to a laundry list of charges that scared him into suicide. Not great for some research we should have just had available for free after already paying to fund it once

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Re:To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab by foldr on Sunday August 16, 2020 @11:56AM (#24178791)
JSTOR has to at least make a show of respecting the licensing agreements that they have with publishers. It can't be seen to wink at an attempt to make its entire archive available for free.

JSTOR actually does a ton of useful work scanning old journal articles. Someone has to pay for this.

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