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Re:U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz Issues Statement on Aaron Swar... by jacquesm on Thursday January 17, 2013 @05:10AM (#5071866)
> illegally distributing protected content

Aaron never did that. He may have been planning that but nobody can say this for a fact.

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Re:U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz Issues Statement on Aaron Swar... by Vivtek on Thursday January 17, 2013 @06:22AM (#5072058)
Like Philip Greenspun says, for all we know he wanted to do metaanalysis. There's no evidence at all he planned to distribute the files.
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Re:U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz Issues Statement on Aaron Swar... by RandomComment on Thursday January 17, 2013 @07:06AM (#5072197)
Really? Not sure if it is just me but i found the JSTOR.torrent years ago and I always assumed it was from Aaron, the file was big like 35gb, I know there is another branded Aaron torrent floating around somehwere

Ah worked it out, someguy did it a while ago, http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6554331/Papers_from_Philosoph... and released his version as a tribute to Aaron. Mystery solved.

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