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Re:The four lamest excuses in MIT’s report on Aaron Swartz by chaostheory on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @08:19PM (#6131049)
Well in this case, it's publicly funded research data. US citizens should have easy access to this data since we already paid for it. So yes. It is our data.

"JSTOR told the Chronicle that each and every year, they turn away 150 million attempts to gain access to articles."

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Re:The four lamest excuses in MIT’s report on Aaron Swartz by v1tyaz on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @09:10PM (#6131236)
Then tell your government to either provide it to the public themselves, or pay someone else to provide it to the public. Either way, funding one half of something and then demanding the rest is ridiculous.
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Re:The four lamest excuses in MIT’s report on Aaron Swartz by chaostheory on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @09:31PM (#6131295)
It's not ridiculous to demand public access to public data post Internet, when almost everything is electronic.

Other people and other organizations are willing to provide this data to the public at their cost. However they can't publish data that's under lock and key.

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