Mass publication of online journal articles in memory of Aaron Schwarz

Today, a tweet started the action under the hashtag #pdftribute . Authors of scientific articles lay out in free access the texts of the articles in order to honor the memory of hacker and activist Aaron Schwartz. The publication of paid copyrighted materials is a kind of protest, just in the spirit of Schwartz .

26-year-old Aaron Schwartz, co-author of the RSS 1.0 specifications, founder of Demand Progress, which greatly helped repeal SOPA / PIPA bills, freedom of information movement activist on the Internet, was prosecuted for downloading and publishing free-of-charge scientific articles from a non-commercial service JSTOR and the MIT computer network. Prior to that, he published online 20% of US laws from yet another paid base PACER. Surprisingly, for reading the laws of their country, US citizens must pay a fee.

He was facing imprisonment for up to 35 years, and on Friday Aaron Schwartz committed suicide by hanging himself in his apartment in New York.

At this point, several hundred messages per hour with the hashtag #pdftribute are posted on Twitter . Links to free content are collected here .
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On the Reddit forum , other ideas are put forward in which form it is better to publish free content, so that it will be easier to find later. The author of the idea himself proposes to provide links with additional hashtags with keywords.



Meanwhile, Cory Doctorow , Lawrence Lessig and other people who personally knew this talented guy paid tribute to Aaron Schwarz.


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