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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/appassionato/statuses/111738888428619258">earthling (appassionato@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 13:59:37 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@appassionato" title="appassionato@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/186000-48-20231011123746.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="earthling" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">earthling</a><div><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p><a href="https://tilde.zone/@enron">@enron</a> </p><p><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon">@bookstodon</a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AaronSwartz" rel="tag">#AaronSwartz</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2585918#notice-5121102">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-01-14T13:59:37+09:00" title="Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 13:59:37 JST">about 10 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@appassionato/111738888428619258" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@appassionato/111738888428619258">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2109485">The Writings of Aaron Swartz
In his too-short life, Aaron Swartz reshaped the Internet, questioned our assumptions about intellectual property, and touched all of us in ways that we may not even realize. His tragic suicide in 2013 at the age of twenty-six after being aggressively prosecuted for copyright infringement shocked the nation and the world.
Here for the first time in print is revealed the quintessential Aaron Swartz: besides being a technical genius and a passionate activist, he was also an insightful, compelling, and cutting essayist. With a technical understanding of the Internet and of intellectual property law surpassing that of many seasoned professionals, he wrote thoughtfully and humorously about intellectual property, copyright, and the architecture of the Internet. He wrote as well about unexpected topics such as pop culture, politics both electoral and idealistic, dieting, and lifehacking. Including three in-depth and previously unpublished essays.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/738/875/873/359/562/original/7f2f41a6004601e3.jpg" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/738/875/873/359/562/original/7f2f41a6004601e3.jpg</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2109486">Aaron Swartz and The Rise of Free Culture on The InternetAaron Swartz was a zealous young advocate for the free exchange of information and creative content online. He committed suicide in 2013 after being indicted by the government for illegally downloading millions of academic articles from a nonprofit online database. From the age of fifteen, when Swartz, a computer prodigy, worked with Lawrence Lessig to launch Creative Commons, to his years as a fighter for copyright reform and open information, to his work leading the protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), to his posthumous status as a cultural icon, Swartz’s life was inextricably connected to the free culture movement. Now Justin Peters examines Swartz’s life in the context of 200 years of struggle over the control of information.The book explores the history of copyright statutes and the public domain; examines archivists’ ongoing quest to build the “library of the future”; and charts the rise of open access, the copyleft movement, and other ideologies that have come to challenge protectionist intellectual property policies. Peters also breaks down the government’s case against Swartz and explains how we reached the point where federally funded academic research came to be considered private property, and downloading that material in bulk came to be considered a federal crime.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/738/881/452/010/441/original/4fae175ca6ece6d7.jpg" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/738/881/452/010/441/original/4fae175ca6ece6d7.jpg</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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1. The Writings of Aaron Swartz In his too-short life, Aaron Swartz reshaped the Internet, questioned our assumptions about intellectual property, and touched all of us in ways that we may not even realize. His tragic suicide in 2013 at the age of twenty-six after being aggressively prosecuted for copyright infringement shocked the nation and the world. Here for the first time in print is revealed the quintessential Aaron Swartz: besides being a technical genius and a passionate activist, he was also an insightful, compelling, and cutting essayist. With a technical understanding of the Internet and of intellectual property law surpassing that of many seasoned professionals, he wrote thoughtfully and humorously about intellectual property, copyright, and the architecture of the Internet. He wrote as well about unexpected topics such as pop culture, politics both electoral and idealistic, dieting, and lifehacking. Including three in-depth and previously unpublished essays.
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2. Aaron Swartz and The Rise of Free Culture on The Internet Aaron Swartz was a zealous young advocate for the free exchange of information and creative content online. He committed suicide in 2013 after being indicted by the government for illegally downloading millions of academic articles from a nonprofit online database. From the age of fifteen, when Swartz, a computer prodigy, worked with Lawrence Lessig to launch Creative Commons, to his years as a fighter for copyright reform and open information, to his work leading the protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), to his posthumous status as a cultural icon, Swartz’s life was inextricably connected to the free culture movement. Now Justin Peters examines Swartz’s life in the context of 200 years of struggle over the control of information. The book explores the history of copyright statutes and the public domain; examines archivists’ ongoing quest to build the “library of the future”; and charts the rise of open access, the copyleft movement, and other ideologies that have come to challenge protectionist intellectual property policies. Peters also breaks down the government’s case against Swartz and explains how we reached the point where federally funded academic research came to be considered private property, and downloading that material in bulk came to be considered a federal crime.
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