/tags/aaronsw/ Recent bookmarks tagged #aaronsw Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:24:52 +0000 https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-something-meta-is-doing-with-little-consequence/ It’s nothing short of an indictment of our society at large that Aaron Swartz, one of the co-creators of the RSS protocol (among many other things) was effectively assasinated by our legal system for “illegally” downloading about 70 gigabytes of academic articles from JSTOR - charged so excessively to be made an example of (we're talking 35 years in prison, $1million USD fine, and asset forfeiture) to the point where he felt the need to take his own life rather than deal with the court circus and impending financial ruin - while Facebook (oh I’m sorry Meta) has torrented 80 TERABYTES of books to train their AI models with virtually no consequences other than a court case they will most likely get some sort of financial slap on the wrist for while their AI models continue to print them money.<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #aaronsw #ai #books #libraries #llms #meta</p> Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:47:56 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:38701 aaronsw ai books libraries llms meta http://chronicle.com/article/Aaron-Swartz-Was-Right/137425/ Until academics get their acts together and start using new modes of publication, we need to recognize that actions like Aaron Swartz's civil disobedience are legitimate. They are attempts to liberate knowledge that rightly belongs to all of us but that has been acquired by academic publishers through tens of thousands of contracts of adhesion and then bottled up and released for exorbitant fees in what functionally amounts to an extortion racket.<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #aaronsw #academia #copyfight #imported:pinboard #publishing</p> Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:15:15 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:32437 aaronsw academia copyfight imported:pinboard publishing http://chronicle.com/article/Aaron-Swartz-Was-Right/137425 Until academics get their acts together and start using new modes of publication, we need to recognize that actions like Aaron Swartz's civil disobedience are legitimate. They are attempts to liberate knowledge that rightly belongs to all of us but that has been acquired by academic publishers through tens of thousands of contracts of adhesion and then bottled up and released for exorbitant fees in what functionally amounts to an extortion racket.<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #aaronsw #academia #copyfight #publishing</p> Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:15:15 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:23429 aaronsw academia copyfight publishing