You owe him RSS, you owe him Markdown, you owe him Creative Commons, you owe him Reddit.
He was 26, wanted to share knowledge for free and they pushed him to suicide for it.
He would be 34 by now, and I cannot imagine all the wonderful things he would have created.
Holy fuck. 35 years?
Jesus, the justice system is fucked. What was the reason behind that kind of sentence? Or was it just a "don't fuck with money" thing they never had to justify to the outside?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz
Just learned today that Sci-Hub was created less than 5 month after his arrest.
How does any of that justify that amount of jail time?
Legit insane. Here's to the continued existence of sci-hub too.
The actual value of what he was planning to pirate was countless and a legitimate matter of national interest. There's a difference between pirating all Disney movies and like all MIT or CalTech research papers. I can't imagine how invaluable scihub has been for scientists outside the imperial core. So it makes sense to throw the entire law book at him. But they overdid it and made him a martyr.