[Foundation-l] Black market science

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Tue Jul 19 20:48:38 UTC 2011


On 19 July 2011 21:07, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> Vaguely related:
> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-charged-with-data-theft
> Aaron Swartz charged by federal prosecutors with illegally downloading
> over 4 million journal articles from JSTOR, with the intent to
> redistribute them via file-sharing networks.


Closely related. I don't believe any detail of JSTOR's denials of
involvement whatsoever. They're increasingly becoming a problem that
needs dealing with.

So. What can we do to help take out the proprietary journal system?


- d.



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