Re: An Attempt to Censor the Internet in the United States - PROTECT IP Act - Stop Online Piracy Act
Tim Wu: what if we'd treated Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak the way we treated Aaron Swartz?
Cory Doctorow at 5:47 pm Tue, Jan 15
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In this sense, Swartz must be compared to two other eccentric geniuses, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who, in the nineteen-seventies, committed crimes similar to, but more economically damaging than, Swartz?s. Those two men hacked A.T. & T.?s telephone system to make free long-distance calls, and actually sold the illegal devices (blue boxes) to make cash. Their mentor, John Draper, did go to jail for a few months (where he wrote one of the world?s first word processors), but Jobs and Wozniak were never prosecuted. Instead, they got bored of phreaking and built a computer. The great ones almost always operate at the edge.
Tim Wu: what if we'd treated Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak the way we treated Aaron Swartz?
Cory Doctorow at 5:47 pm Tue, Jan 15
snip
In this sense, Swartz must be compared to two other eccentric geniuses, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who, in the nineteen-seventies, committed crimes similar to, but more economically damaging than, Swartz?s. Those two men hacked A.T. & T.?s telephone system to make free long-distance calls, and actually sold the illegal devices (blue boxes) to make cash. Their mentor, John Draper, did go to jail for a few months (where he wrote one of the world?s first word processors), but Jobs and Wozniak were never prosecuted. Instead, they got bored of phreaking and built a computer. The great ones almost always operate at the edge.
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