Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

Re:Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does... by DANmode on Friday August 21, 2026 @08:48PM (#49395524)

Are you being intentionally obtuse?

If the JSTOR copy didn’t exist, the pre-print copy would be scraped from the author’s website,

or the text / results submitted by the author or someone close anonymously.

Less, more slowly, but the same point.

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Re:Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does... by foldr on Saturday August 22, 2026 @05:35AM (#49398080)

Sure, we’ll scrape journal articles from the 1950s from the authors’ websites...

Many more recent articles also aren’t available on the authors’ websites, such as the one I linked.

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