source: Ars Technica

A U.S. man going by the name of Greg Maxwell has posted 32GB of JSTOR scientific documents to The Pirate Bay.  The documents released are pre-1923 which according to U.S. copyright law should be within the public domain.  Instead, JSTOR charges fee's for academics and researches to obtain documents and scientific journals, even if they are from before 1923.  The release comes in the wake of the arrest of one time Reddit Co-Founder Aaron Swartz for allegedly downloading roughly 4.8 million documents from the JSTOR database.

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