[DBrow]

” in which he returned the downloaded material. “

He didn’t delete it from the servers when he copied it, that makes no sense. He returned copies of what he downloaded?

As for vicious prosecutions, look what they did in the Amerithrax cases, both men were basically tortured.

Yes, it is frequently true that crime victims have little say in how the prosecution goes. Apparently FedGov has little tolerance for people who hack major systems. Can’t wait to see Obama’s new cybersecurity EO’s.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

He didn’t delete it from the servers when he copied it, that makes no sense. He returned copies of what he downloaded?

According to the terms of his settlement with JSTOR, Swartz returned all data in his possession downloaded from JSTOR. I assume this meant that he turned over any storage devices he was using to keep the downloaded docs on and signed some legal agreement avowing that he had no other copies stashed on any other storage.