Knowledge is Illegal

Read:

• http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/2254204/Release-of-33GiB-of-Scientific-Publications
• http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/19/1839237/Aaron-Swartz-Indicted-in-Attempted-Piracy-of-Four-Million-Documents
• http://blog.demandprogress.org/2011/07/federal-government-indicts-former-demand-progress-executive-director-for-downloading-too-many-journal-articles/
• http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-charged-with-data-theft/
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/19/harvard_fellow_indicted/
• http://www.osnews.com/story/24968/Internet_Activist_Charged_in_MIT_Data_Theft
• http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/swartz-supporter-dumps-18592-jstor-docs-on-the-pirate-bay.ars
• http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/reddit-founder-arrested-for-excessive-jstor-downloads.ars
• http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6554331

Knowledge is dangerous... knowing too much... is bad. That is the view point of those who want to preserve their exclusive rights to knowledge and none other.