Bizarre definition of "the science & technology community" re: Swartz's JSTOR information embezzlement.

Activist posts academic journal torrent: so the people can, I dunno, make rage comics & mashups from it.

Information embezzlement: activist charged w/ breaking into MIT & downloading 4.8million JSTOR articles

"But now some college lawyers and professors are warning that one of the most widely used plagiarism-detection services may be trampling on students' copyrights and privacy."

"Members of the new Committee for Students' Rights said they do not cheat or condone cheating. But they object to Turnitin's automatically adding their essays to the massive database, calling it an infringement of intellectual property rights."

"Well, if you watched "Deadwood", you know that the law didn’t always win. The key is to get in bed with the enemy, to play along and invest in them, rather than shut them down, because you can’t shut them down."

Deceptive or poorly disclosed licensing agreements, bad. Information monopolies, bad. However. Pandering to mass ignorance and free-riding, also bad. Advocating unrealistic, poorly premised solutions, also bad.

"Copyright is a bargain. It grants some exclusive rights to authors and reserves the remaining rights to the public. ... oftentimes when you copy in the course of scholarship, you make a copy in accordance with the law."

"Ann Springer, staff counsel for the American Association of University Professors, said ... “The professor’s presentation in class is the professor’s intellectual property, and to submit it to a Web site is a violation of those rights..." "

""It'⊘s mine, and I'⊘ll do what I damn well please with it. ... If you do like it, don'⊘t steal it. Pretend you'⊘re not a cheap bastard and pony up the fifty cents.""

"First, in embezzlement, an actual conversion must occur; second, ... the embezzler must have had the right to possess the item, and used that position of trust to convert the property."

"Embezzlement is defined in most states as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets."

A mass media mention of the neologism "information embezzlement". Scattered references are also present in security company advertising and legal research related to "computer crime".

" "Information wants to be free." Baloney. Cheapskates and freeloaders want information, and everything else, to be free. Information doesn't want anything. "