Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)

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In The Wake Of Aaron Swartz's Death, Let's Fix Draconian Computer Crime Law

Marcia Hoffman | Electronic Frontier Foundation | January 14, 2013

Aaron was one of our community's best and brightest, and he acheived great things in his short life. He was a coder, a political activist, an entrepreneur, a contributor to major technological developments (like RSS), and an all-around Internet freedom rock star. As Wired noted, the world will miss out on decades of magnificent things Aaron would have accomplished had his time not been cut short. Read More »

Introducing Aaron’s Law, A Desperately Needed Reform Of The Computer Fraud And Abuse Act

Zoe Lofgren and Ron Wyden | Wired | June 20, 2013

The Internet is up for grabs. [...] We need an informed public debate to ensure lawmakers make the right choices that fully preserve the vital openness of the Internet and the privacy and civil liberties of its users. Reforming the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) should be a part of that debate. Read More »

Lawrence Lessig Lecture On Aaron Swartz, Law And Justice In The Digital Age

D.S. Wright | FDL | February 21, 2013

Lawrence Lessig marked his appointment as Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School with a lecture titled “Aaron’s Laws: Law and Justice in a Digital Age.” Read More »

Opinion: In Wake Of Aaron Swartz’s Death, Professors Should Consider Open Access

David Scheuermann | The Daily Reveille | January 22, 2013

I would like to focus on what I think was most important to Swartz: his determination to provide free and open access to scholarly research. As college students, it’s easy to take our access to the latest scholarly journals and research for granted. Paid for by our institution, most articles we need can be easily found and read in the library. Unfortunately for the general public, most scholarly research is sealed away behind paywalls.

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Rebooting Computer Crime Part 3: The Punishment Should Fit The Crime

Cindy Cohn, Hanni Fakhoury, and Marcia Hofmann | Electronic Frontier Foundation | February 8, 2013

In the wake of social justice activist Aaron Swartz's tragic death, Internet users around the country are taking a hard look at the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the federal anti-hacking law. As we've noted, the CFAA has many problems. Read More »

The New Aaron Swartz Documentary At Sundance

Tim Wu | The New Yorker | January 21, 2014

“The Internet’s Own Boy,” a documentary about the life and death of Aaron Swartz, premièred on Monday at the Sundance Film Festival, where it received a standing ovation. The life of Swartz as a coder and an Internet thinker is well known. [...] The documentary, shot in the course of that year, gives us relatively little new information about the legal controversy, but it is deeply revealing about who Swartz was. Read More »

The Public Domain Still Needs Idealism

Anna Wiener | New Republic | January 15, 2016

In the current startup universe, there’s still a lot of chatter about changing the world, an objective that has become so cliché—and ridiculed—that it’s easy to forget that those voicing this desire genuinely, vehemently believe it. From the outside, the prospect of a world-changing software product is either very exciting or completely delusional, depending on who’s talking...Idealism about technology as a democratizing force currently looks a lot like defense: protecting digital civil liberties, and fighting against further erosion. This is the side that Justin Peters is most committed to documenting in his book The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet, a partial biography of the late activist and Open Access advocate...

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Why Sony Is Threatening To Sue Twitter — And Why It Would Probably Never Win

Erin Fuchs | Business Insider | December 23, 2014

Sony Pictures Entertainment's lawyer has suggested that Twitter is violating state and federal laws by letting one of its users tweet data stolen by North Korean hackers...

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