Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Booking Video: Aaron Swartz Jokes, Jousts With Cops After MIT Bust

wired.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–6 of 6 posts

Re: Booking Video: Aaron Swartz Jokes, Jousts With Cops After MIT Bust

#2

Post by dalek2point3 »

chilling, absolutely chilling -- that this happens for writing code. hell, scraping a website. i agree that what Aaron did was not a 100% legal, but to equate it with a criminal offence? Bah! Support Aaron's Law! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/aarons-law-introduced-...

Re: Booking Video: Aaron Swartz Jokes, Jousts With Cops After MIT Bust

#3

Post by Zigurd »

dalek2point3 wrote: post #2

chilling, absolutely chilling -- that this happens for writing code. hell, scraping a website. i agree that what Aaron did was not a 100% legal, but to equate it with a criminal offence? Bah! Support Aaron's Law! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/aarons-law-introduced-...

More than that, make sure that the prosecutors on his case, Stephen Heymann and Carmen Ortiz, never ever have the opportunity to do the same to anyone else.

Re: Booking Video: Aaron Swartz Jokes, Jousts With Cops After MIT Bust

#4

Post by midas007 »

Zigurd wrote: post #3
dalek2point3 wrote: post #2

chilling, absolutely chilling -- that this happens for writing code. hell, scraping a website. i agree that what Aaron did was not a 100% legal, but to equate it with a criminal offence? Bah! Support Aaron's Law! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/aarons-law-introduced-...

More than that, make sure that the prosecutors on his case, Stephen Heymann and Carmen Ortiz, never ever have the opportunity to do the same to anyone else.

They need to be removed immediately for misconduct. Every day they are allowed to continue practicing law is a spit in the face.

Re: Booking Video: Aaron Swartz Jokes, Jousts With Cops After MIT Bust

#5

Post by chimeracoder »

Zigurd wrote: post #3
dalek2point3 wrote: post #2

chilling, absolutely chilling -- that this happens for writing code. hell, scraping a website. i agree that what Aaron did was not a 100% legal, but to equate it with a criminal offence? Bah! Support Aaron's Law! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/aarons-law-introduced-...

More than that, make sure that the prosecutors on his case, Stephen Heymann and Carmen Ortiz, never ever have the opportunity to do the same to anyone else.

Carmen Ortiz has been playing up her involvement in the Tsarnev brother's case (the Boston marathon bombings last year).

Hopefully that doesn't overshadow her despicable role in Swartz's case, but given how sort the public attention span is, I'm not holding my breath. :/

Re: Booking Video: Aaron Swartz Jokes, Jousts With Cops After MIT Bust

#6

Post by midas007 »

dalek2point3 wrote: post #2

chilling, absolutely chilling -- that this happens for writing code. hell, scraping a website. i agree that what Aaron did was not a 100% legal, but to equate it with a criminal offence? Bah! Support Aaron's Law! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/aarons-law-introduced-...

The bill is currently stuck in committee in both the House and Senate. I'm sure we could unstick it if we had the leverage.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:s.1196:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:h.r.2454:

Post reply on HN