How many more dead kids needed to prop up Boring Industries of America bottomline ?

Sunday, 13 January, Year 5 d.Tr. | Author: Mircea Popescu

The tragic and heartbreaking information you received is, regrettably, true,” confirmed Swartz’ attorney, Elliot R. Peters of Kecker and Van Nest, in an email to The Tech.

Swartz was indicted in July 2011 by a federal grand jury for allegedly downloading millions of documents from JSTOR through the MIT network — using a laptop hidden in a basement network closet in MIT’s Building 16 — with the intent to distribute them. Swartz subsequently moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he then worked for Avaaz Foundation, a nonprofit “global web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making everywhere.” Swartz appeared in court on Sept. 24, 2012 and pleaded not guilty.

The accomplished Swartz co-authored the now widely-used RSS 1.0 specification at age 14, founded Infogami which later merged with the popular social news site reddit, and completed a fellowship at Harvard’s Ethics Center Lab on Institutional Corruption. In 2010, he founded DemandProgress.org, a “campaign against the Internet censorship bills SOPA/PIPA.

via The Tech. BIIA rejoices, copyrights well worth it.

Get back to me when any of the BIIA "executives" actually does something useful with his life.

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    Omega Peter 
    Tuesday, 15 January 2013

    Probabail ca nu le trece prin cap si treaba asta....

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