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393 points pyman | 2 comments | 07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.523s | source

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1oooqooq ◴[07 Jul 25 11:01 UTC] No.44488916[source]▶

Aaron Swartz rolling

pyman ◴[07 Jul 25 11:08 UTC] No.44488969[source]▶

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.

1. mikewarot ◴[07 Jul 25 11:17 UTC] No.44489030[source]▶

>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.

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2. pyman ◴[07 Jul 25 11:45 UTC] No.44489302[source]▶

I agree

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