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Actually don't stay away from that IT Cabinet, the Jury was very likely to find you innocent.
Fuck you MIT for supporting the prosecution!
I am unfamiliar with this historical event, care to explain?
Tl; Dr:
- Savant-genius in our time works on/with and drives a large amount of the early “Web 2.0” era that champions decentralization, openness, and freedom of information
- This ethos is carried throughout his work in tech, leading him to mass copy databases that are paywalled or closed access to students, that he had permission to use, and dump the info online for free
- JSTOR and MIT get salty about this, set up a sting at the school servers where he’s doing said mass copying
- Prosecutor wayyyy overcharges Aaron and seeks to neuter him from using tech, Aaron gets scared and (due in part to a longstanding mental & physical illness) commits suicide
There’s more info and context, but that the broad strokes. Fuck MIT for pushing his prosecution, JSTOR was fine once he stopped uploading their database
There is actually speculation that he never intended to dump the files online for free. He was working on information research at the time.
If I remember correctly it relates to the death of the other reddit founder. The not spithead one.
Ah...sad
There is a documentary about him. Be ready to get punched right in the feels.
Girls bad
IT nerd boys good
Let this garbage shitty template die already.
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