You mean disablijng JSTOR access for an entire campus, and trying to steal both the copyrighted material for free distribution but the vital JSTOR index and cutting off the income JSTOR uses to purchase the periodicals and and pay editors to organize the data? Creating a "free library" by stealing the books and cutting off the library's traffic is selfishness at its arrogant Ivy League tower worst.
You mean disablijng JSTOR access for an entire campus
he downloaded 70gb with curl in a python loop in a single process over wifi. you can't possibly ddos a system with that. those were bullshit claims and charges.
Turns out you could, and he very nearly did. JSTOR saw that somebody on the MIT network was systematically downloading their entire database and told MIT that they would revoke their access if they continued. Yes, his actions would have disabled JSTOR for the entire campus.
Since he was doing this clandestinely, there wasn't even any way for the MIT admins to talk to him and ask him what he was doing and why it was a problem for them. All they could do is cut off his access when they found him doing it, wh
He was _charged_ with crimes with a maximum penalty of more than 100 years because he did the same penny ante crimes so very many times. This was the third time Aaron had abused free or generous access to documents and taken down the service for others in the process, and he'd evaded jail time twice. This was at least his third such abuse, and larger in scope than his previous abuses. He'd certainly earned jail time, though with his wealth and Harvard and MIT's unwillingness to see Harvard staff prosecuted
You mean disablijng JSTOR access for an entire campus, and trying to steal both the copyrighted material for free distribution but the vital JSTOR index and cutting off the income JSTOR uses to purchase the periodicals and and pay editors to organize the data? Creating a "free library" by stealing the books and cutting off the library's traffic is selfishness at its arrogant Ivy League tower worst.
You mean disablijng JSTOR access for an entire campus
he downloaded 70gb with curl in a python loop in a single process over wifi. you can't possibly ddos a system with that. those were bullshit claims and charges.
Turns out you could, and he very nearly did. JSTOR saw that somebody on the MIT network was systematically downloading their entire database and told MIT that they would revoke their access if they continued. Yes, his actions would have disabled JSTOR for the entire campus.
Since he was doing this clandestinely, there wasn't even any way for the MIT admins to talk to him and ask him what he was doing and why it was a problem for them. All they could do is cut off his access when they found him doing it, wh
They busted him again? Poor Aaron.
He was _charged_ with crimes with a maximum penalty of more than 100 years because he did the same penny ante crimes so very many times. This was the third time Aaron had abused free or generous access to documents and taken down the service for others in the process, and he'd evaded jail time twice. This was at least his third such abuse, and larger in scope than his previous abuses. He'd certainly earned jail time, though with his wealth and Harvard and MIT's unwillingness to see Harvard staff prosecuted