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His downfall came when he turned his attention to JSTOR, a digital library of academic articles hidden behind a paywall.
But anyone who says that there is money to be made in a stash of academic articles is either an idiot or a liar.
The SecureDrop platform was initially developed by the US developer and activist Aaron Swartz, who killed himself in 2013 when facing charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for the mass downloading of academic articles.
His transgressions were far more innocuous: Swartz, whom Larissa MacFarquhar wrote about in March, was indicted for downloading millions of academic articles from JSTOR, a pay-walled service he had free access to on M.I.T.'s campus.
Similarly, the indictment threatening Aaron Swartz with thirty-five years in prison depended, in part, on a terms-of-service violation: when Swartz tried to download thousands of academic articles, he did so as an authorized guest user of the M.I.T. network.
Such measures also do nothing to help Chinese journals gain recognition by the rest of the world, as has been described by two colleagues from Zhejiang University in an article entitled "The outflow of academic articles from China: why is it happening and can it be stemmed?".
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So, today, the startup is launching a new product that allows users to access a repository of millions of credible academic articles from more than 6,500 sources, including journals, magazines, newspapers and transcripts, for $10 per month.
The statute is the same anti-hacking cause of action leveled against the late Aaron Swartz over his high volume downloading of JSTOR academic articles from the MIT campus.
A believer in free access to knowledge, in 2010 Swartz installed a computer in an M.I.T. supply closet and downloaded a large number of old academic articles.
He is the author of numerous academic articles and a textbook.
But he first began making headlines for a coding exploit that he undertook in September of 2010, when he used MIT's servers to scrape and download a large portion of the academic articles stored by the online catalog JSTOR using a program named keepgrabbing.py.
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