Quotes:
Sir Tim Berners-Lee - the British inventor of the world wide web
"Aaron dead. World wanderers, we have lost a wise elder. Hackers for right, we are one down. Parents all, we have lost a child. Let us weep."
Peter Eckersley, Electronic Frontier Foundation, non-profit digital rights group
"Aaron did more than almost anyone to make the Internet a thriving ecosystem for open knowledge, and to keep it that way. While his methods were provocative,
the goal that Aaron died fighting for - freeing the publicly-funded scientific
literature from a publishing system that makes it inaccessible to most of those
who paid for it - is one that we should all support.
Moreover, the situation Aaron found
himself in highlights the injustice of US computer crime laws, and particularly
their punishment regimes."
Larence Lessig, Harvard Law professor and ex-mentor
"Here is where we need a better sense of justice, and shame. For the outrageousness in this story is not just Aaron. It is also the absurdity of the prosecutor's behaviour.
"Here is where we need a better sense of justice, and shame. For the outrageousness in this story is not just Aaron. It is also the absurdity of the prosecutor's behaviour.
From the beginning, the government
worked as hard as it could to characterise what Aaron did in the most extreme
and absurd way. The "property" Aaron had "stolen," we were
told, was worth "millions of dollars"- with the hint, and then the
suggestion, that his aim must have been to profit from his crime.
But anyone who says that there is money to be made in
a stash of ACADEMIC ARTICLES is either an idiot or a liar. It was clear what
this was not, yet our government continued to push as if it had caught the 9/11
terrorists red-handed.Sources:
http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html
http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N30/swartz.html
