I watched it a while ago and I believe the movie talks about Aaron possibly investigating on the correlation of results found in JSTOR's academic papers database in order to conclude on the influence of financing on their results (hopefully what I'm saying makes sense... I may also very well be wrong about this claim). I am myself very interested in this topic, regardless of whether that's what Aaron was trying to do when downloading these papers. Does anyone know if such an analysis has been performed since/before/ever ?
The internet’s own boy: the story of Aaron Swartz [video]
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#12People should really be upset at the first girlfriend who tipped the Feds about the manifesto for immunity.
You really have to keep most people on a need-to-know basis.
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#13What's crazy is that the accomplices in the Boston Marathon bombings faced less jail time than Aaron. That's right people, copying documents is a worse crime than being an accomplice to terrorism.
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#14People should really be upset at the first girlfriend who tipped the Feds about the manifesto for immunity. You really have to keep most people on a need-to-know basis.
I think the movie conveys pretty clearly that she shows a lot of remorse and anger about how she was treated and the information she gave up under duress.
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#15The people who could not find their way to some thoughtfulness and restraint and stop an insanely inappropriate and disproportionate legal travesty should lose their jobs and be driven out of their professions.
>an insanely inappropriate and disproportionate legal travesty
That is just about every case ever. Even the really bad people, the ones you and I and everyone else reading this agree deserve to be locked behind bars, have their charges trumped up far beyond what they are actually guilty of in an attempt to coerce them to take a plea bargain for lesser charges. To put another way, they are successfully punishing most people for insisting on their right to a fair trial.
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#16"But also, I must admit that I am a little disappointed in Aaron. I understand that depression is a serious disease that can fell any person, however strong. But he chose the path of the activist long ago. And the path of the activist is to fight, for as long and as hard as it takes, to effect change. Aaron had powerful friends, a powerful support network, and a keen sense of moral cause that put him in the right. That's how he got that support network of powerful friends and fellow activists in the first place" -- J. Atwood
http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-end-of-ragequitting/
I always felt this Jeff Atwood blog post was a good run down of why everyone was so upset over Aaron's suicide. It was a stupidly tragic mistake and Aaron knew better.
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#17Aeon's Deputy Editor has also (just?) published a 2600 word detailed article on Aaron Swartz asking "Persecuted little guy, or powerful revolutionary – what sort of wunderkind was Aaron Swartz?"
Posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9505156
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#18The people who could not find their way to some thoughtfulness and restraint and stop an insanely inappropriate and disproportionate legal travesty should lose their jobs and be driven out of their professions.
>an insanely inappropriate and disproportionate legal travesty That is just about every case ever. Even the really bad people, the ones you and I and everyone else reading this agree deserve to be locked behind bars, have their charges trumped up far beyond what they are actually guilty of in an attempt to coerce them to take a plea bargain for lesser charges. To put another way, they are successfully punishing most…
Every case ever has had inappropriate and disproportionate trial/punishment? That's a very outlandish statement. Are you referring to a specific type of crime? A good argument can be made that this is true for many marijuana cases. But you seem to be talking about all crimes...
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#19This time can we please skip the obligatory mega-thread about if Aaron was or wasn't a True Founder of Reddit?
It appears that we have skipped it. So, good job?
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#20Just the video, embedded from youtube. Here's the official site of the movie: http://www.takepart.com/internets-own-boy Definitively a movie anyone using the internet should watch. I cried.
That link to takepart seems to be asking people to pay.
The film is released under Creative Commons and is available for free to stream or download (MPEG, OGG, Torrent) directly off the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaro...