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"Once I realized that everything that surrounds me is not a natural world order, which can only be so. The world is full of things that can be changed. More importantly, the world is full of things that need to be changed. As soon as I realized this, there was no turning back ", - the author of the next manifesto stated in one of his interviews. Aaron Schwartz - energetic dark-haired young guy, Internet activist, programmer, writer, IT-visionary and author of the "Partisan Manifesto". Before you get acquainted with another vision of the foundations of the Internet space, set out in 2008, it is worth to touch on the life path of its author. Co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification (at age 14), the creator of the Infogami service, which later merged with the news portal Reddit, and the co-founder of the movement against Internet censorship Demand Progress - is far from the full track record of this guy. "He fought incessantly and unselfishly for the movement of free culture" - a concise and precise description of Schwartz by Virginia Heffernan in Yahoo! News.
Becoming older, Schwartz began to devote more time and energy to policy issues. What's the big online action "Tell the government why you're against SOPA"! Subsequently, Schwartz began to quickly gain influential supporters and never stinted on active action. By the way, Aaron spent a lot of time researching the level of corruption in the US among top-tier politicians. The rejection of the rules and doubts about everything that the majority takes as a reality led to the tragic events in his life. In 2011, a lawsuit was launched against Schwartz for downloading millions of documents (scientific articles) from the online library of JSTOR. The prosecution was supposed that in the future these files can be placed in free access. After some time, JSTOR refused to sue Schwartz, but the case was not closed by the US federal prosecutor, who stated:
"Theft is theft, whether you used a computer or a scrap, you stole documents, data or dollars." For a number of articles, Schwartz was in danger of more than thirty years of imprisonment. In January 2013, before the court could make a guilty verdict, Schwartz committed suicide by hanging himself in his own apartment.
"Information is power. But, as usually happens with the authorities, there are those who want to own it alone. All the world's scientific and cultural heritage, published over the centuries in a variety of books and journals, is rapidly being digitized and closed from the superfluous eyes of a handful of private corporations. Do you want to read about the most outstanding achievements of science? You will have to send huge sums to publishers like Reed Elsevier.
But there are those who want to change this order. "Free access movement" bravely fought for the right of scientists not to give their intellectual property to corporations, but freely publish their work on the Internet. So anyone can get to them. But even if this scenario is implemented, it will only affect future works. Everything that was created before this moment will be lost.
This is too high a price. Forcing scientists to pay money for reading the work of their colleagues? Do you want to scan whole libraries, but only allow them to read to Google staff? Provide scientific articles of elite universities in the countries of the first world, but not children from third world countries? This is outrageous and unacceptable.
"I agree," say many, "but what can we do?" Companies own copyrights, and they earn huge money. And this is completely legal. We just can not stop them. " But still, we can do something. Something that is already being done: we can fight.
People who have access to these resources - students, librarians, scientists - you have an advantage. You feed on this feast of knowledge while the rest of the world sits under lock and key. But you should not, or rather, you do not have the moral rights to leave this privilege only to yourself. Your duty is to share it with the world. And you do this, exchanging passwords with colleagues, filling out download requests for friends. "
Quotations from this manifesto the prosecutor was going to prove at the trial the intention of Schwartz to publish the downloaded documents in free access. Taking a sharp start and a hard rhythm - you certainly go beyond the limits of human capabilities and spend an vital charge with incredible speed. With this assumption, skilfully connect the short life of some geniuses or the loss of their understanding in the generally accepted "prime of life". I do not know if this is really so, only in the context of this story do you involuntarily think about the existence of such a quality of life.
Dust and fountain with high-flown speeches with loud epithets "victim of the state machine" or "a symbol of the struggle for free Internet" do not want to, because it is already performed by Aaron's associates and an active online community. Perhaps I will be considered an eerie pragmatist, but I have long established myself that every revolution needs fallen heroes. They will have to personify not only the danger of fighting a more powerful opponent, but also selflessly believing in their own ideals.(Source)
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