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I'd argue that he's fully ethical and it's our laws that are on the wrong side here. Pity the latter have the guns...

The only reason he's not a hero is that he didn't put all the PDFs up on a torrent. We are the library now.

Wouldn't any code of ethics endorsed by Harvard view hacking MIT as a virtuous act?

Definitely true -- I thought it was a relevant bit of information so I quoted it.

That's fair, I was just refuting what your comment implied, that it was an unethical action.

(I understand that you may not have intended to imply it. Just wanted to put that out there.)

So since we don't disagree on that: Do you think what he did is ethical?

edit: also, boston.com says he "is a fellow at Harvard’s University’s Center for Ethics". A quick google says that he was at least as of October 2010:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=swartz+ethics+fello...