The case against Aaron Swartz that the Feds dropped: His
plan to liberate Federal Court filings
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To download an electronic copy of a Federal
Court filing from their PACER system costs 10 cents a page. You probably
thought it was free, right? Well, the late Aaron Swartz thought they should
be. And before he got into hot water for scraping millions of academic
research documents from JSTOR, he was investigated for similar acts of
information liberation from PACER. The FBI tried to develop a prosecutable
case against him for these activities, and failed. But PACER documents still
aren't free, and Swartz's associates are still trying to change that: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The inside story of Aaron Swartz’s campaign to liberate court filings And how his allies are trying to finish the job by tearing down a big paywall. by Timothy B. Lee - Feb 8 2013 http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/the-inside-story-of-aaron-swartzs-campaign-to-liberate-court-filings/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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