He was a good guy and he should never have been charged:
Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
— Mushtaq Bilal, PhD (@mushtaqbilalphd.bsky.social) 2025-02-07T16:45:47.498Z
