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When corporations scrape academic papers, it's justified. When individuals do it, it's inexcusable.
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this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2024
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Yes.. but it was MIT that pushed the feds to prosecute.
Never forge to name the proper perp.
Disgusting. And we subsidize their existence 🤡
MIT releases financials and endowment figures for 2024:
The Institute’s pooled investments returned 8.9 percent last year; endowment stands at $24.6 billion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Ortiz
So that was some bullshit, huh ?
Because he literally broke into a server room and installed hardware to harvest this data.
There's no world where any organization, for profit or otherwise, would tolerate that. Even your local library would call the damn cops if you tried that.
Disgusting bootlicker spotted. For context: