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Aaron Swartz

Those Conspiracy Guys

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Copyright Motherfuckers Don't Give a Fuck

During a short time at Stanford Aaron wondered why the legal documents were being put behind a paywall. He ended up downloading the entire Westlaw database of law review articles and ran a program on it to investigate this system. This I think is absolutely key to his demise right to the overreach of the FBI yep of even congressional legal machinations set in place solely to curb his actions. Never mind about copyright motherfuckers don't give a fuck about copyright you look at yeah talked about adobe now they're making more than enough money even hollywood kinder really doesn't give aFuck because there's enough like if you make a movie for 60 million makes a hundred it's 40 million

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