well, that is certainly not what I read. He was downloading in bulk from a free info site. I am sure now that he committed suicide, the powers that be are attempting to magnify whatever he did into a huge deal. You are buying into it, like that he had it coming. That is wrong.
I never said he had it coming.
You are also misinformed. The site was free info for the students because MIT paid for the service. It was a non free web service.
Here’s a fairly sympathetic article to him, but even it says he violated the contract. It does, as I agree, also point out that the prosecutor went overboard. Which is in keeping with what she tried to do to this property owner, so she has a pattern of abuse.