this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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[โ€“] Longpork3@lemmy.nz 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It wasn't even piracy. Schwartz had a legitimate right to access those materials via the university, they just trumped it up into an issue because he accessed them in a non-conventional manner and assumed he was up to something unscrupulous.

The entire case against him came down to "he seemed like he was concealing his bulk download that he was otherwise completely authorized to do, and therefore was consipring to do something"

[โ€“] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

I'm sure the executives that made the decisions to do all of this will be jailed, and prosecuted in court...