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1702 points•403 comments•1w ago•by speckx•blog.curiousquail.com ↗

Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

The article recounts that Aaron Swartz, co-creator of RSS, was prosecuted for downloading about 70 gigabytes of JSTOR articles and faced penalties described as severe, including potential 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine, with Swartz dying by suicide amid the case. It contrasts this with Meta allegedly downloading about 80 terabytes of books to train its AI models and facing minimal consequences beyond a possible financial penalty. The piece frames the comparison as a critique of how similar activities are treated by authorities and the tech industry.

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