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He frequently claims to be a cofounder, though.

He gave a talk at my university advocating people to release journal articles they have access to as students to the Internet.

The whole thing was very strange, as he was claiming to be a cofounder of a well known company he was not a cofounder of and he was openly advocating illegal activity.




Wow, that's very weird. What school did he speak at, did anyone record it?



that's unreal. Min 29 on seems to be where the direct discussion of "rule" breaking begins. Rule breaking by Swartz being getting the JSTOR files from students and placing them online.




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