8 Jan
2014
8 Jan
'14
8:33 a.m.
On 2014-01-08 17:35, Juan Garofalo wrote:
"Meanwhile, on October 14, we asked MIT if they could identify the person responsible because we wanted to understand the downloader's motivation, to ensure the articles already downloaded would not be distributed,"
MIT, however. made no real effort to identify the person responsible until he brought their network to a grinding halt. Aaron Swartz was arrested for pissing off the sysadmins, and he pissed off the sysadmins by busting their wiring in their wiring closet. The cause of his arrest, and the charges against him, were damaging interference with other people's physical property.