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July 19, 2011 02:41 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/JegOCfPyVf8/nyt-reddit-cofounder.html
NYT: Reddit cofounder accused of data theft
Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit, was indicted Tuesday on charges of data theft. The district attorney in Boston claims that he stole millions of documents from MIT and JSTOR, crimes that could put him in jail for 35 years. Here's Nick Bilton in the New York Times: In a press release, Ms. Ortiz's office said that Mr. Swartz broke into a restricted area of M.I.T. and entered a computer wiring closet. Mr. Swartz apparently then accessed the M.I.T. computer network and stole millions of documents from JSTOR. Update: In a press release Demand Progress, the political action group founded by Swartz, denies the prosecutor's claims outright: "As best as we can tell, he is being charged with allegedly downloading too many scholarly journal articles from the Web" and compares it to "checking too many books out of the library."...
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