Very sad and unfortunate. Having working with him for years and following his activities closely, it was a very unexpected and shocking news to me. Just a month back, he started working a grand plan to revive watchdog.net, which he put on hold couple of years back. He really had great plans about what to achieve in long-term.
FBI tried unsuccessfully to nail him down when he downloaded and make public the large collection of PACER documents. He managed get out easily because govt. data is in public domain in the US. I guess they were just looking for another chance. Thej, yes we are prone to govt. bullying like what happened to with Aaron. Since govt. data copyrighed in India, every bulk download that we do from govt. websites can be seen as violation of law. Anand On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Thejesh GN <i...@thejeshgn.com> wrote: > Thanks for the mail. I am sad and incredibly angry on the system as well. > Lessig's blog post kind of reflects my thoughts > http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully > > It reminds me "scraping" - what we think as an innocent way of gathering > public data may not be viewed in the same way by authority. > > > Thej > -- > Thejesh GN | ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ > http://thejeshgn.com > GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 > > > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Nisha Thompson > <nisha.thomp...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I am sure most of you heard, Aaron Swartz one of the pioneers of RSS, >> Reddit,social hacktivism, and on top of that a great person, died. >> >> I knew Aaron very briefly when he worked out of the Sunlight Foundation >> offices several years back. I remember him being incredibly sweet, smart, >> funny and generous. >> >> It is tragic how he was treated for making information, that belongs to >> the public, open. He was a hero to lot of us. I'm very sad to not have his >> ever present passion and heart no longer around. >> >> As we move forward with our endeavors to bring information into the >> public sphere we can't forgot the people that came before us and led the >> way. >> >> Aaron you have left a void, Rest in Peace. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Nisha Thompson >> Mobile: 962-061-2245 >> >> -- >> For more details about this list >> http://datameet.org/discussions/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "datameet" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> >> >> > > -- > For more details about this list > http://datameet.org/discussions/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > -- Anand http://anandology.com/ -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
