Mass online publication of magazine articles in memory of Aaron Schwartz

    Today on Twitter, the campaign began under the hashtag #pdftribute . Authors of scientific articles publish texts of articles in free access to honor the memory of the hacker and activist Aaron Schwartz. The publication of paid copyrighted materials is a kind of protest, just in the spirit of Schwartz .

    26-year-old Aaron Schwartz, co-author of RSS 1.0 specifications, founder of Demand Progress, which has helped to a large extent to repeal SOPA / PIPA bills, an activist for the freedom of information on the Internet, has been prosecuted for downloading and publishing freely available scientific articles from a non-profit service JSTOR and computer network MIT. Prior to that, he published online 20% of US laws from another paid base, PACER. Surprisingly, US citizens must pay a fee to read the laws of their country.

    He was threatened with imprisonment until the age of 35, and on Friday Aaron Schwartz committed suicide by hanging himself in his apartment in New York.

    At this point, several hundred posts per hour are posted on Twitter with the hashtag #pdftribute . Links to freed content are collected here . Other ideas are being put forward at the

    Reddit forum in which form it is better to publish free content so that it can be easier to find later. The author of the idea himself suggests providing links with additional hashtags with keywords. Meanwhile, a tribute of respect to Aaron Schwartz was given to Cory Doctorow , Lawrence Lessig and other people who personally knew this talented guy. A photo







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