Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge

He downloaded millions of academic articles and the government charged him with multiple felonies.

The difference is, Aaron Swartz wasn't planning to build massive datacenters with expensive Nvidia servers all over the world.

>the government charged him with multiple felonies.

This was the result of a cruel and zealous overreach by the prosecutor to try to advance her political career. It should never have gone that far.

The failure of MIT to rally in support of Aaron will never be forgiven.

It's even worse considering all he downloaded was in public domain so it was much less problematic considering copyright.

Lesson is simple. If you want to break a law make sure it is very profitable because then you can find investors and get away with it. If you play robin hood you will be met with a hammer.

I agree