ISPs have been exposed as hijacking the search traffic that some of their customers have tried to type into Yahoo and Bing search engines, and now the backlash begins. Now companies involved in the scheme has been hit with a lawsuit and may face Congress. Read more »
Two days after Aaron Swartz was indicted for allegedly trying to copy thousands of documents from a scientific archive, a torrent with close to 19,000 documents has found its way to the Pirate Bay. The leak is accompanied by a scathing critique of scientific publishing. Read more »
A young programmer named Aaron Swartz has been indicted by federal prosecutors for allegedly downloading more than 4 million academic documents from the MIT library last year by hacking into its computer system. But why prosecute him for a crime which appears to have no victims? Read more »
