Terrible journalism on this issue makes me really angry.
First sentence:
> AARON SWARTZ , who committed suicide two weeks ago, had been arrested for illegally downloading millions of articles from JSTOR, an archive of academic journals.
Dead wrong.
First sentence:
> AARON SWARTZ , who committed suicide two weeks ago, had been arrested for illegally downloading millions of articles from JSTOR, an archive of academic journals.
Dead wrong.
The OP, as you pointed out, says illegally downloading. The illegal part, ostensibly, comes from the alleged "hacking". There is nothing about copyright infringement implied here, though yes, that's the natural connotation of "illegal download"