fossilesqueNever Forget
HubiHe didn’t even share them as far as I know, he just downloaded them. And the trial hadn’t started yet when he committed suicide.
KairosDownloading isn’t a crime, is it?
He was being charged under the CFAA, a hacking criminal statute that prohibits unauthorized access to computer systems. It was controversially being stretched to cover Aaron’s conduct that violated TOS by an ambitious prosecutor.
Are TOS violations felonies now?
If you want to read about how we got into this fucked up situation I’d recommend the hacker crackdown by Bruce Sterling (a notorious cyberpunk sf writer among other things) www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/101
