« #AaronSwartz planned to publish millions of scientific articles, financed by public money and on which the authors received nothing. Prosecuted before he had published anything, he risked 35 years in prison. Facing this prospect, he died by suicide on 11 January 2013. 11 years ago.
In 2024, #OpenAI will apply its algorithms to any document, online or offline, without the consent of the authors. No one is likely to be prosecuted.
#IntellectualProperty is just a tool of oppression. » @ploum
Aaron Swartz a le projet de diffuser des millions d’articles scientifiques, financés par l’argent public et sur lesquels les auteurs ne touchent rien. Poursuivi avant d’avoir rien publié, il risque 35 ans de prison. Devant cette perspective, il se suicide le 11 janvier 2013. Il y a 11 ans. En 2024, OpenAI entraîne ses algorithmes sur tout document, en ligne ou non, sans accord des auteurs. Personne ne sera vraisemblablement poursuivi. La propriété intellectuelle n’est qu’un outil d’oppression.
@alexthepres " On the night of January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested near the Harvard campus by MIT Police and a Secret Service agent, and arraigned in Cambridge District Court on two state charges of breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony. "
" On July 11, 2011, he was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer, and recklessly damaging a protected computer. "
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#United_States_v._Aaron_Swartz_case
Guys, Aaron's death has nothing to do with copyright nor cybersecurity:
"In January 2013, WikiLeaks claimed through its Twitter account that Swartz had been in contact with Julian Assange through 2010 and 2011, and that Swartz may have been a source of leaked materials. If true, this would offer an explanation as to why charges against Swartz were pursued by the federal government despite JSTOR dropping charges and urging that the government and MIT do the same."
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from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz
This is just how US gov deals with whistleblowers. Clearly Aaron knew they were after him because of his contributions to WikiLeaks and so the suicide makes more sense or they killed him and made it looks like a suicide.
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@danslerush @ploum In #startrek there are no #patents but there is the right to property as a "person and professional recognition" not as something hidden, secret and kept in a safe in the center of the earth.
That is the #future for humanity and nothing else, but until we get there we have to endure #Capitalism with its thirst for money and #Communism possessed by mentally ill people.
law im general is.
it only applies to the masses.
it protects the rich and legal experts.
it is all a big fat joke.
it works because everyone gets brainwashed in school and only a fraction of the masses ever experiences "the law"... most just believe the fairy tale they have been tought about it.
same goes for democracy the way it works in reality
@engagedpractx “Intellectual property law supplies the set of rights and remedies that artists are calling upon to prevent makers of GANs from stealing all their work”
“what happened to Aaron Swartz is enraging, but the legal picture is a bit more nuanced”
Care to explain what “rights” of “artists” have to do with Aaron Swartz?
@danslerush @ploum evergreen, but if you can't throw it in prison it's not a person
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