WTP Petition : Remove United States DA from office for overreach in the case of Aaron Swartz

[dlwickham]

13. so where do they say that they didn't want him prosecuted

I'm still waiting for someone to back up that line

I'm not accusing anyone of lying or misrepresenting JSTOR's position; I just want someone to show me where that had been said

I think this was a situation where JSTOR was damned if they did or damned if they didn't

Swartz is being made to be some kind of martyr and the powers that be at JSTOR, which unless you were an academic had probably never heard of before this, wanted to wash their hands of the whole mess

the first fact is that JSTOR and Swartz came to an agreement where Swartz would return the materials he illegally downloaded with an guarantee that none of the material would be made available for free out in cyberspace or wherever and JSTOR would accept his mea culpa

the second fact is that he still illegally downloaded something like 4 million pages of documents despite returning the materials

it's like a thief and a jewelry store agreeing to let things be if the thief returned the diamonds he stole but that the fact that he stole doesn't not go away