Swartz, Aaron Indictment
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. AARON SWARTZ, Defendant Crim. No. VIOLATIONS: 18 U.S.C. § 1343 (Wire Fraud) 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(4) (Computer Fraud) 18 U.S.C. § 10 30(a)(2), (c)(2)(B)(iii) (Unlawfully Obtaining Information from a Protected Computer) 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5)(B), (c)(4)(A)(i)(I),(VI) (Recklessly Damaging a Protected Computer) 18 U.S.C. § 2 (Aiding and Abetting) 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(C), 28 U.S.C. § 2461(c), and 18 U.S.C. §982(a)(2)(B) (Criminal Forfeiture) INDICTMENT The Grand Jury charges that at all relevant times: PARTIES 1. The Massachuset ts Instit ut e of Technol ogy (“MI T”) was and co nt inued to be a leading research and teaching university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2. JSTOR, f ounded in 1995, was an d co ntinued to be a Uni ted States-bas ed, not -f or - profit organization that provides an online system for archiving and providing access to academic journals. It provides searchable digitized copies of over 1,000 academic journals, dating back for lengthy periods of time. 3. JSTOR’s s er vi ce i s import ant to r esear ch i nsti tuti ons and univer si ti es b ecaus e it can be extraordinarily expensive, in terms of both cost and space, for a research or university library to maintain a comprehensive collection of academic journals. By digitizing extensive, historical collections of journals, JSTOR enables libraries to outsource the journals’ storage,
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