Per un punto di vista diametralmente opposto (con un linguaggio, però,
a tratti francamente poco dignitoso), vedere:
http://3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state/2013/01/james-boyle-vs-orin-kerr-on-swartz.html

jc


Aaron's Army
Memorial for Aaron Swartz at the Internet Archive
January 24, 2013

TEXT OF REMARKS BY CARL MALAMUD

Do not think for a moment that Aaron's work on JSTOR was the random act of a lone hacker, some kind of crazy, spur-of-the-moment bulk download.
JSTOR had long come in for withering criticism from the net. Larry Lessig called JSTOR a moral outrage in a talk and I suppose I have to confess he was quoting me. We weren't the only ones fanning those flames.
Sequestering knowledge behind pay walls—making scientific journals only available to a few kids fortunate enough to be at fancy universities and charging $20 an article for the remaining 99% of us—was a festering wound. It offended many people.
It embarrassed many who wrote those articles that their work had become somebody's profit margin, a members-only country club of knowledge.
Many of us helped fan those flames. Many of us feel guilty today for fanning those flames.
But JSTOR was just one of many battles. They tried to paint Aaron as some kind of lone-wolf hacker, a young terrorist who went on a crazy IP killing spree that caused $92 million in damages.
Aaron wasn't a lone wolf, he was part of an army, and I had the honor of serving with him for a decade. You have heard many things about his remarkable life, but I want to focus tonight on just one.
Aaron was part of an army of citizens that believes democracy only works when the citizenry are informed, when we know about our rights—and our obligations. An army that believes we must make justice and knowledge available to all—not just the well born or those that have grabbed the reigns of power—so that we may govern ourselves more wisely.
He was part of an army of citizens that rejects kings and generals and believes in rough consensus and running code.

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