through europe - Aaron Swartz http://th-rough.eu/taxonomy/term/425/0 en Aaron Swartz e Bartleby http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-ita/aaron-swartz-e-bartleby <span class='print-link'></span><div class="rtejustify"> Non ho mai conosciuto personalmente Aaron Swartz, e non posso interpretare il suo suicidio, perch&eacute; quella scelta non &egrave; mai effetto di una singola causa ed &egrave; comunque impossibile da &ldquo;spiegare&rdquo;.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> Eppure.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> Eppure io so qualcosa su quel che l&rsquo;ha spinto a fare quello che ha fatto.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> Aaron era un programmatore, creatore del formato RSS, e anche scrittore, attivista e ricercatore. Recentemente ha svolto un ruolo centrale nella campagna SOPA (<em>Stop online piracy act</em>) che si &egrave; conclusa con un successo e ha impedito una limitazione dei diritti della rete. Era conosciuto dai suoi amici, ma anche dall&rsquo;FBI per aver scaricato grandi quantit&agrave; di dati per usarli nella sua ricerca e per rendere pubblici documenti soggetti a propriet&agrave; privata. Nel 2008 Swartz aveva scaricato e messo a disposizione di tutti circa il 20% del database <em>Public Access to Court Electronic Records</em> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACER_%28law%29" title="PACER (law)">(PACER)</a>gestiti dall&rsquo;Administrative Office degli Stati Uniti.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> Inoltre, secondo le autorit&agrave; federali Swartz aveva messo in rete gratuitamente un gran numero di articoli accademici dato che come ricercatore disponeva di un account JSTOR.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> JSTOR &egrave; un archivio digitale, e come altri database accademici rende disponibile testi a pagamento. Ogni articolo costa tra 19 e 39 dollari. Inoltre JSTOR accetta sottoscrizioni solo da istituzioni, il che significa che uno studioso indipendente o un ricercatore senza affiliazione istituzionale o un ricercatore precario non pu&ograve; accedervi.</div> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-ita/aaron-swartz-e-bartleby" target="_blank">read more</a></p> bifo-ita Aaron Swartz Bologna copyright repression social centres suicide Italian Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:55:58 +0000 Franco Berardi Bifo 312 at http://th-rough.eu I never met Aaron Swartz, but he was my brother. http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-eng/i-never-met-aaron-swartz-he-was-my-brother <span class='print-link'></span><div class="rtejustify"> I never met Aaron Swartz, but he was my brother, although much younger than me.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> I cannot interpret his suicide. Suicide is never the effect of a single cause, and it is always impossible to &ldquo;explain&rdquo; death.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> Nevertheless.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> Nevertheless I know something about the causes that pushed Aaron to do what he did.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> He was a computer programmer, creator and developer of the web feed format RSS, and a writer, an activist and also a Harvard researcher. Recently he played a prominent role in the SOPA campaign (Stop online piracy act) which had a successful outcome.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> Aaron was known &ndash; by his friends and by FBI as well - for a history of downloading massive data sets, both to use in research and to release public domain documents from behind paywalls.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> In 2008, Swartz downloaded, and released, approximately 20% of the Public Access to Court Electronic Records <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACER_%28law%29" title="PACER (law)">(PACER)</a> database of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_courts" title="United States federal courts">United States federal court</a> documents managed by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_Office_of_the_United_States_Courts" title="Administrative Office of the United States Courts">Administrative Office of the United States Courts</a>.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> According to federal authorities, over the course of a few weeks in late 2010 and early 2011 Swartz, having a JSTOR personal account as a research fellow at Harvard University, downloaded a large number of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_journal" title="Academic journal">academic journal</a> articles via JSTOR.</div> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/bifo-eng/i-never-met-aaron-swartz-he-was-my-brother" target="_blank">read more</a></p> bifo-eng Aaron Swartz depression knowledge semiocapitalism suicide English Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:24:04 +0000 Franco Berardi Bifo 311 at http://th-rough.eu