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Friday, July 29, 2011

THOUSAND OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS UPLOADED TO PIRATE BAY



“A user called Greg Maxwell just uploaded a torrent with 18,592 scientific publications to the Pirate Bay, in what appears to be a protest directed both at the recent indictment of programmer Aaron Swartz for data theft as well as the scientific publishing model in general. All the documents of the 32-gigabyte torrent were taken from JSTOR, the academic database that’s at the center of the case against Swartz.”  Read more…