Some people LOVE the rich getting do whatever they want, and prefer to be under their heels.
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Without intending to take away from the broader point against Meta that this image is making which I think is valid, I’d like to point out that this image is misleading.
Aaron Swartz was offered a plea deal of six months in a low-security prison and turned it down. He wasn’t facing $1million in fines and 35 years in prison – that’s just the potential maximum penalty of what he was originally charged with.
What he did also went beyond downloading some books from LibGen. It was a dedicated hack against MIT which also served as a DDoS. He deliberately circumvented multiple attempts by MIT to block what he was doing.
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“Cyberpunk theme”
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That was during *the RIAA financially ruins you in your early twenties for downloading mp3s on Limewire* days.
They had it in for the little guy *hard* over copyright infringement, and they bankrupted *lots* of people.
The thing he did wasn’t even prohibited by the software of the website he downloaded the journals from: he scripted logging in, downloading, logging out, to get the log-in quota (JSTOR?) on repeat, night and day, for a while. It probably didn’t even cost that much in bandwidth and it’s not like the pdf files went missing from the server. He broke a rule that was about as well enforced as “don’t run in the halls”, and stole *nothing* but made too many copies of what was sitting out in the open to be copied. It would hardly have had merit as a *civil* suit.
The big money was with brands back then: trademark and copyright holders like big record companies and publishers.
Now it’s just the tech bros at the top and they’re too big to commit crimes.
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Edward, Lord Thurlow 1731–1806
English jurist
Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.
usually quoted as ‘Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked?’
John Poynder Literary Extracts (1844) vol. 1; see Coke
RJ_MacreadysBeard on
35yeaes??? People don’t get that for murder and rape do they?
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‘Rules for thee, not for me (the mega corpo)’
Eat the rich.
Some people LOVE the rich getting do whatever they want, and prefer to be under their heels.
Without intending to take away from the broader point against Meta that this image is making which I think is valid, I’d like to point out that this image is misleading.
Aaron Swartz was offered a plea deal of six months in a low-security prison and turned it down. He wasn’t facing $1million in fines and 35 years in prison – that’s just the potential maximum penalty of what he was originally charged with.
What he did also went beyond downloading some books from LibGen. It was a dedicated hack against MIT which also served as a DDoS. He deliberately circumvented multiple attempts by MIT to block what he was doing.
“Cyberpunk theme”
That was during *the RIAA financially ruins you in your early twenties for downloading mp3s on Limewire* days.
They had it in for the little guy *hard* over copyright infringement, and they bankrupted *lots* of people.
The thing he did wasn’t even prohibited by the software of the website he downloaded the journals from: he scripted logging in, downloading, logging out, to get the log-in quota (JSTOR?) on repeat, night and day, for a while. It probably didn’t even cost that much in bandwidth and it’s not like the pdf files went missing from the server. He broke a rule that was about as well enforced as “don’t run in the halls”, and stole *nothing* but made too many copies of what was sitting out in the open to be copied. It would hardly have had merit as a *civil* suit.
The big money was with brands back then: trademark and copyright holders like big record companies and publishers.
Now it’s just the tech bros at the top and they’re too big to commit crimes.
Edward, Lord Thurlow 1731–1806
English jurist
Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.
usually quoted as ‘Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked?’
John Poynder Literary Extracts (1844) vol. 1; see Coke
35yeaes??? People don’t get that for murder and rape do they?