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JSTOR Misuse Case
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- From: "Okerson, Ann" <ann.okerson@yale.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:30:00 EDT
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The story and developments below may be of interest to readers. >From the New York Times, July 19, 2011 A respected Harvard researcher who also is an Internet folk hero has been arrested in Boston on charges related to computer hacking, which are based on allegations that he downloaded articles that he was entitled to get free. A federal indictment unsealed in Boston on Tuesday morning on charges that the researcher, Aaron Swartz, broke into the computer networks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to gain access to JSTOR, a nonprofit online service for distributing scholarly articles online, and downloaded 4.8 million articles and other documents -- nearly the entire library. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/us/20compute.html?_r=1
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