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@Moon @Greg @ageha holy shit, you figured it out! if Aaron didn't want to commit suicide, he simply should have found a way to liberate educational materials without inconveniencing anyone! jesus fucking christ.

i don't know if you know that you're doing this, but you're simultaneously:
- defending MIT and USGov's decision to arrest and prosecute a young man for stealing educational and scientific materials, and threaten him with decades of jail time and millions of dollars in fines, because the gatekeeping of that information made the college and scientific publishing industry a LOT of money (even though researchers and authors only saw a fraction of that revenue)
- protecting corporations that are scraping every public Web service for materials copyrighted by (often) individual artists and authors with declared intent to create services that are capable of replacing the people who create art and literature, thereby destroying a revenue stream that keeps thousands of skilled professionals housed, from valid criticism.