https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-copyrighted-material-parliament

tl;dr stealing for science.

  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    10 months ago

    the RSS guy to kill himself for scraping stuff and freely sharing, by threatening him with a stupid amount of jail time.

    which guy was this?

    • fox [comrade/them]
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      10 months ago

      Aaron Schwartz. Had some dubious libertarian-approaching ideas but he believed in total freedom of information. He downloaded and redistributed a shitload of content off JSTOR illegally because he felt that paywalling scientific studies was bad, was caught, and committed suicide when facing an unbelievably harsh sentence from a rabid DA.