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The actual indictment with details of the hack: http://web.mit.edu/bitbucket/Swartz,%20Aaron%20Indictment.pd...

Also JSTOR's statement: http://about.jstor.org/news-events/news/jstor-statement-misu...

35 years in jail sounds insanely outside all proportions of the damage done by downloading scholarly articles!

35 years is crazy; if they wanted could MIT do something about that? I mean; it seems far more reasonable to give me a fine.

Demand progress makes it sound like MIT asked the gov't not to pursue the case. But the gov't went forward anyway

http://demandprogress.org/aaron

thanks for the JSTOR statement. 35 years sounds crazy high too

depends... what's the total value of what he stole? say, for arguments sake, it was in the 7 figure range. If I steal a million bucks from you, how long would you like me to spend in prison?

I think it was 4 million articles in the JSTOR database that he downloaded.

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