This is extremely worrying, dangerous and demands a collective response from academics.
As this list is a 'forum for critical and radical geographers', perhaps we could use it to brainstorm ideas about what we could do.
Obvious starting point would be the 'petition', 'sending letters / emails' to the authorities etc, but perhaps this is the time for more direct responses, a bit like the Twitter action when thousands of people re-tweeted the joke about blowing up an airport...
some kind of coordinated mass download and publication of the same journals that Swartz has been 'liberating' from the corporate knowledge enclosures?
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From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Deb Ranjan Sinha [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 21 July 2011 23:17
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Subject: Re: stealing journal articles?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/swartz-arrest/
interesting points:
* JSTOR is not pursuing the legal case, the US feds are.
* Swartz used guest accounts to access the network and is not accused of any
hacking.
* There are (unknown) limits, i.e. you can booted off the (e.g. JSTOR)
network for too much downloading.
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