Reddit/Science is overrun by the marketing people they instituted as moderators so we are not costing ourselves any traffic by linking to an article about the left-wing kook who created it getting caught stealing four million documents from MIT and JSTOR, an archive of scientific journals and academic papers. 100% of our articles are summarily buried so readers can instead enjoy PhysOrg press releases and whatever else the people who pay their moderators thinks should be in place of actual science.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Carmen M. Ortiz said that Aaron Swartz broke into a restricted area of M.I.T. and entered a computer wiring closet. Mr. Swartz apparently then accessed the M.I.T. computer network and stole millions of documents from JSTOR. He had already hacked into the computer system and auto-downloaded millions of copyright documents.
Swartz, a political activist now but most famous for co-founding news link service Reddit (owned by Conde Nast), didn't give any details on why he did it - yet but the indictment says he intended to distribute the copyrighted files on file-sharing services. It can't be because he cares about freedom of the Internet. A guy who took in millions selling his start-up to an evil corporate behemoth in mid-town Manhattan would never be a hypocrite like that.
Indictment here
Reddit Co-Founder Charged With Data Theft by Nick Bilton, NY Times
