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[–] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 53 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I feel like they should be paying more per thing viewed than I do as a human

They pressured the RSS guy to kill himself for scraping stuff and freely sharing, by threatening him with a stupid amount of jail time.

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago

RIP Aaron Swartz

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the RSS guy to kill himself for scraping stuff and freely sharing, by threatening him with a stupid amount of jail time.

which guy was this?

[–] fox@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

Aaron Schwartz. Had some dubious libertarian-approaching ideas but he believed in total freedom of information. He downloaded and redistributed a shitload of content off JSTOR illegally because he felt that paywalling scientific studies was bad, was caught, and committed suicide when facing an unbelievably harsh sentence from a rabid DA.