Not to mention that Swartz had a JSTOR account, which means he was legally entitled to download the things that he did. The part they didn't like was that he used scripts to download en-mass, and a bunch of boomer fucks thought he actually committed a crime.

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Well in the Social Network movie and chapter 2 of the Accidental Billionaires, Mark Zuckerberg used wget in shell scripts to get copyrighted images for private servers.

Can we give punish him?

[–] sus@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Spotify also originally got all its music by pirating it. But later it started printing money for record labels (while fucking over musicians) so all was forgiven.

[–] OwlHamster@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

That feels a bit disingenuous. The record labels were already thoroughly fucking over musicians.

[–] 3dmvr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 9 months ago

and youtube got big hosting everything, they took years to take down hella anime, movies, etc.

[–] 3dmvr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 9 months ago

and crunchyroll

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 9 months ago

No, he's part of the US oligarchy. Don't criticize too much or you might happen to have sudden, unexplainable tech problems and legal trouble. /s

[–] coronach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, he broke and entered a networking closet as well. But I guess that is a separate issue.

[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

broke what

[–] thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

The university AND jstor were pretty quick to get as uninvolved from that mess as quick as possible, so it really doesn't matter.... But what you're saying has nothing to do with the case and is also not true. "Broke and entered" implies forced physical access into a clearly forbidden area. The network closet was a room that was left unlocked and was frequently used by janitorial staff to put junk in.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Old people and overreacting to normal things because new ideas are scary and confusing

Name a more iconic duo

[–] Gingernate@programming.dev 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I fear getting old because of this

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 0 points 9 months ago

My grandma is the opposite of this, he embraces learning new technology and wants to stay informed with new developments.
So far my dad is like this as well.
I strive to become like them, they're both pretty great people all-round!

[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm with you right up to the ageism. The folks who persecuted Aaron were older than him, but they were not boomers, and what they did had nothing to do with his age or theirs.

Bigotry is always wrong.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Boomer is a mindset.

[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fine. Use a word for it that isn't a bigoted slur.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Boomer isn't a slur.

[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

When it is used to denigrate a "mindset" that you don't like, it is most certainly a slur. When used to refer to folks who were born between 1945 and 1960, it is not.

We've all agreed (almost all) to stop using the word retarded to refer derogatorily to folks who do not have that medical condition.

Any word can be used as a slur.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago

Any word can be used as a slur? Really? Please explain what a slur is to you. I agree that every word can be used as an insult, you absolute Brokkoli, but that's down to tone and context, more than anything, isn't a slur more than that?

[–] wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Rest in power, Aaron. 🫡

Eat the rich.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

They'd make better fertilizer (especially with that plastic-eating fungus on hand), so there's taking a bite outta world hunger in the same stroke. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago

It's Luigi time!

[–] detun3d@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

Important to note Aaron was helping democratize information while companies like Meta, Amazon, Google and Microsoft just centralize, twist and redact information to monetize access to a dumbed down and censored version of it.

[–] meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Meta hoards the commons like a dragon, pillaging open archives to train its soulless algorithms, while Aaron Swartz—a true steward of knowledge—was hunted down for daring to share.

One gets a slap on the wrist, the other gets a noose of legal threats. Justice? No, this is corporate feudalism, where the lords rewrite the rules and the serfs pay with their lives.

Aaron wanted liberation; Meta wants monopoly. The system rewards the parasite and punishes the visionary. Remember that next time you scroll through their ad-soaked wasteland.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago

They know that liberation is a threat to them.

[–] Teamsaxon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

Fuck meta and a BIG FUCK OFF to AI and all the companies slurping up ai slop "tech" to implement it in their rubbish software, apps, white goods, appliances.. Fuck. It's just infected every conceivable facet of our lives and no one is objecting it, it's like everyone suddenly forgot about how many engineers spoke out about the dangers!

[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

There is a very good documentary about Aaron's life: The Internet's Own Boy

Its license is Creative Commons, so it's on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M85UvH0TRPc

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Another reason to tell Obama to fuck himself.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

Along with his treatment of Snowden doing a public good.

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 1 points 9 months ago

I love Anna's archive. I still buy e-books, but will download a drm free copy from the archive.

[–] mnmalst@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

I am getting so sick of this fucked up world.

[–] ertai@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

Goes to show how much of a joke copyright is. These laws are bought by and made to protect the interests of corporations. disgusting. rip aaron schwarz, your ideas live on.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago

I genuinely believe that if he was still around he'd of ended up a proponent for federated social media. I'm pretty sure he was the driving force behind opening it's source, and it wasn't until four years after his death that it was closed off again.

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

It's becoming more and more obvious that they were always referencing bank accounts when saying we're a country of checks and balances.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Crazy idea:

If copyright was invented to prevent printers from scooping authors’ work and out-competing them for sales…

Maybe copyright should only apply if you’re trying to compete with the author?

So like, not if you’re just a lowly individual trying to keep up with the references all of society is making, or understand the world you live in.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 9 months ago

LotR should have entered the public domain in 2023.

Instead we got the Rings of Power.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org -1 points 9 months ago

out-competing them for sales…

Boy that is a really mental gymnastics way of saying "profiting from someone else's work".