A Boring Dystopia

The difference is Aaron Schwartz was going to use it for good, while Meta is almost certainly only going to be using it for evil.

The good die young, dude was a big open source contributor and could have been a good Sam Altman.

While I was aware of this I did not make the connetion and Im a bit ashamed to say I forgot about him. Need to add him to the mental wall of heores with luigi and ed. So aaron, ed, and luigi.

True hero, a legend

I knew both of these happened, but I didn’t compare them in my brain until now. But that’s crazy.

This just makes me think that we should feel less guilty for pirating. They've set a precedent, right?

The documentary about him is heart-breaking. I highly recommend it.

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz

I immediately thought of Aaron when I read about Facebook torrenting books.

but we shouldn't want anyone prosecuted at all

He was using them for academic purposes, which should have been covered under fair use too, makes the whole thing extra fucked up.

This should be a legal defense moving forward.

But your honor, I only downloaded 0.03 Metas, I’m clearly not guilty. As the court knows, it’s only once you pass 0.5 Metas that you start to stay into the guilty territory.

Yeah but he was a lefty libertarian who believed publicly funded research should be publicly available. If he were doing it for profit he wouldn't have had any problems.

We should never forget this guy, a true hero.