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Not to mention that Swartz had a JSTOR account, which means he was legally entitled to download the things that he did. The part they didn't like was that he used scripts to download en-mass, and a bunch of boomer fucks thought he actually committed a crime.
Well in the Social Network movie and chapter 2 of the Accidental Billionaires, Mark Zuckerberg used
wgetin shell scripts to get copyrighted images for private servers.Can we give punish him?
Spotify also originally got all its music by pirating it. But later it started printing money for record labels (while fucking over musicians) so all was forgiven.
That feels a bit disingenuous. The record labels were already thoroughly fucking over musicians.
and youtube got big hosting everything, they took years to take down hella anime, movies, etc.
and crunchyroll