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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: GRACIE JIU-JITSU on June 28, 2014, 08:35:58 PM
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https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz
Near the end of the documentary, we’re introduced to 15-year-old Jack Andraka, who recently discovered a breakthrough, low-cost pancreatic-cancer test by reading free online academic articles much like those Swartz downloaded from JStor.
Andraka told the Vancouver Observer that he relied on free articles because “in most online databases, articles cost about $35 and there are only about 10 pages ... I believe (Swartz’s) actions were mostly justified.
The public funded a lot of that research. It shouldn’t be held inaccessible to the public.” The film asks, How many other Andrakas could make groundbreaking medical discoveries if a world existed where access to information is treated as everyone’s birthright?
But how many more Swartzes will face legal repercussions — and the accompanying despair — that comes with fighting for such a world?