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.
wow! great article.
I remember when the downloading of music became a huge deal and people were petrified that the govt would demand impoverishing fines because their teens had downloaded some albums.
The government should not behave as a bully or a killer.
And he was a student, therefore entitled by his crushing paid tuition to download from the site.
We have the same thing here with the court mailing things back to our offices: they want a filing fee, PLUS you should leave them prestamped envelopes for mailing your final judgments back. So, many of us say, look, we paid a filing fee, surely that should cover some postage.