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Hacking paywalls is fine, apparently

OpenAI President Greg Brockman's response to being told his company hacked the NYT paywall to scrape content: "ah nice." That's a Computer Fraud and Abuse Act violation. Executives should be in jail. But remember Aaron Swartz? He had legal access to the material, was downloading it non-commercially, and the feds destroyed him over it. They prosecuted so hard that he ended his life and only then did they drop the case. The law exists. It's just not applied equally.
Matt Stoller @matthewstoller
OpenAI's President Greg Brockman, when told his company had hacked the NYT paywall to scrape the site, responded with "ah nice." That's a straightforward criminal violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. OpenAI executives in jail.
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