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		sneak on Feb 26, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Aaron Swartz Was Targeted by Feds Over His Activis... This presupposes that one can own information in the first place.

monsterix on Feb 26, 2013 [–]

Well research papers that were funded by people's money - sure why not?

metaphorm on Feb 26, 2013 | [–]

you should research the background of this case more. the jstor documents in question were already in the public domain.

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