MIT releases report on its actions in the Aaron Swartz case

Re:MIT releases report on its actions in the Aaron Swartz case by sendos on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @12:20PM (#6128004)

I did not follow this case when it broke, so do guys know what Aaron planned on doing with all that JSTOR material he was downloading? (~80% of JSTOR, according to one article I read)

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Re:MIT releases report on its actions in the Aaron Swartz case by betterunix on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @04:29PM (#6129809)

It is not clear. The prosecution claims that his goal was to distribute the articles freely to the world (yes, the terrible crime of using university resources to spread knowledge), but that is just a hypothesis based on statements he made years ago.

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Re:MIT releases report on its actions in the Aaron Swartz case by grauniad on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @04:27AM (#6132486)

Maybe he should have asked. Or gone about it in a legal way.

Breaking the law, is breaking the law. However noble your intent.

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Re:MIT releases report on its actions in the Aaron Swartz case by jmcgough on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @12:44PM (#6128180)

His intent was to make it all freely available.

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Re:MIT releases report on its actions in the Aaron Swartz case by MichaelSalib on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @12:48PM (#6128213)

We really don't know that. There are reasons to suspect that he did, but as the report points out (section II.A.2), he never explicitly said what his intent was.

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