Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment
by woodruffw on Friday December 17, 2021 @10:51AM
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> US universities are famously litigious and take a hard line stance when it suits them. See Aaron Swartz.
MIT was not a party to the lawsuit against Aaron Swartz, nor was even JSTOR. It was brought entirely by the US Attorney for Massachusetts.
Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment
by syshum on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:18AM
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They claim that after the fact, after the bad press, I believe neither JSTOR or MIT
Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment
by woodruffw on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:23AM
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You don't have to believe them. You can look at the court records yourself, or any number of public case summaries[1].
To quote:
> Opting not to pursue a civil lawsuit against him, JSTOR reached a settlement with him in the summer of 2011 in which Swartz turned over the downloaded data to them. It was never released to the public. Neither did MIT take any civil action against him.
The lawsuit was a purely Justice initiative.
[1]: https://fija.org/library-and-resources/library/law-and-legal...
US universities are famously litigious and take a hard line stance when it suits them. See Aaron Swartz. So, I don't buy the 'they are still kids' line. That is, I don't condone it, but I don't agree that universities are motivated by this sort of reasoning.