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"legally copyright law does not forbid training."(hexbear.net)

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sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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the RSS guy to kill himself for scraping stuff and freely sharing, by threatening him with a stupid amount of jail time.

which guy was this?

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fox [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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Aaron Schwartz. Had some dubious ideas but he believed in total freedom of information. He downloaded and redistributed a shitload of content off JSTOR illegally because he felt that paywalling scientific studies was bad, was caught, and committed suicide when facing an unbelievably harsh sentence from a rabid DA.

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