That’s really disturbing. I exchanged some friendly emails with him a few months back last time :/ . Didn’t think of this as a possibility at all. So sad to see younger people go.
Sidenote: something is profoundly wrong with US. 35 years sentence even as a possibility? What the hell? In the EU he’d face some fine and community service maybe and that’s about it, or actually nothing at all as the case would have been dropped when MIT and JSTOR backed down.
Even though MIT and JSTOR (the journal publisher) backed down, the prosecution kept on. (...) A couple of lawyers close to the case told me that they thought Aaron would go to jail.
Recent evidence points towards him being related to wikileaks sources.
One theory is that he was related to these activities but the government couldn’t prove it.
Therefore using this to arrest him.
There’s evidence that supports this theory like the fact that at the time of his arrest the hardware where he stored the info he “stole” weren’t confiscated.
It’s like they didn’t care what his charges were.
That’s really disturbing. I exchanged some friendly emails with him a few months back last time :/ . Didn’t think of this as a possibility at all. So sad to see younger people go.
Sidenote: something is profoundly wrong with US. 35 years sentence even as a possibility? What the hell? In the EU he’d face some fine and community service maybe and that’s about it, or actually nothing at all as the case would have been dropped when MIT and JSTOR backed down.
Lessig: Prosecutor as bully. His crime was pissing off the wrong people: a government of men, not laws.
From the Cory Doctorow link in the OP:
Yes, that’s what I was referring to. It is crazy.
JSTOR’s first best outcome was probably for Swartz to go to jail while having people think that JSTOR didn’t want him to go to jail.
JSTOR weaseled, but this will follow Kevin Guthrie and Laura Brown for the rest of their lives. As it should.
Too optimistic.
Recent evidence points towards him being related to wikileaks sources. One theory is that he was related to these activities but the government couldn’t prove it. Therefore using this to arrest him. There’s evidence that supports this theory like the fact that at the time of his arrest the hardware where he stored the info he “stole” weren’t confiscated. It’s like they didn’t care what his charges were.