When corporations scrape academic papers, it's justified. When individuals do it, it's inexcusable.
When corporations scrape academic papers, it's justified. When individuals do it, it's inexcusable.
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Yes.. but it was MIT that pushed the feds to prosecute.
Never forge to name the proper perp.
Disgusting. And we subsidize their existence 🤡
MIT releases financials and endowment figures for 2024:
The Institute’s pooled investments returned 8.9 percent last year; endowment stands at $24.6 billion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Ortiz
Ortiz said "Stealing is stealing whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars. It is equally harmful to the victim whether you sell what you have stolen or give it away."
Because he literally broke into a server room and installed hardware to harvest this data.
There's no world where any organization, for profit or otherwise, would tolerate that. Even your local library would call the damn cops if you tried that.
Disgusting bootlicker spotted. For context:
After state prosecutors dropped their charges, federal prosecutors filed a superseding indictment adding nine more felony counts, which increased Swartz's maximum criminal exposure to 50 years of imprisonment and $1 million in fines.
You call the other person a name
You don’t respond to anything they say directly
You do it twice in the same thread
You call something context without providing context