[nfais-l] Breaking News Story

[Jill O'Neill]

NFAIS member organizations may find this breaking news story to be of
interest:

 

The New York Times is reporting that 24-year-old Aaron Swartz, formerly
Harvard Ethics Fellow and Executive Director of Demand Progress, is under
indictment for illegal downloading of content from JSTOR via computers at
MIT without authorization. See
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-charged-with-data
-theft/

 

In the interests of time, Wired seems to have the best overview of the
various parties' positions.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/swartz-arrest/  

 

More information may be found at the links below: 

 

The full text of the formal indictment:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/217115-20110719-schwartz.html

 

JSTOR statement about the indictment:
http://about.jstor.org/news-events/news/jstor-statement-misuse-incident-and-
criminal-case. 

Demand Progress statement: http://demandprogress.org/aaron

 

 

Jill O'Neill

Director, Planning & Communication

NFAIS

(v) 215-893-1561

(email) jilloneill at nfais.org

 

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