He returned all of the articles he downloaded to JSTOR when he was asked to. He did not distribute them.
UPDATE: Here's JSTOR's confirmation of the above: http://about.jstor.org/statement-swartz
UPDATE: Here's JSTOR's confirmation of the above: http://about.jstor.org/statement-swartz
Thank you for your message. Some of the media details about this incident have been a bit misleading. I can confirm that no content is missing from JSTOR as a result of the recent misuse case. Copies of the files were downloaded from the site, no content is unavailable as a result.
> How do you return something that was downloaded?