He had legal access to JSTOR through MIT so I don’t even think any crime was actually committed apart from maybe connecting a PC in their network closet without authorization and they never had any actual evidence that he was going to redistribute the material. He likely was planning on it, but never got that far.
He was using them for academic purposes, which should have been covered under fair use too, makes the whole thing extra fucked up.
According to the college it was, according to the FBI they were going to prosecute him federally anyway.
He had legal access to JSTOR through MIT so I don’t even think any crime was actually committed apart from maybe connecting a PC in their network closet without authorization and they never had any actual evidence that he was going to redistribute the material. He likely was planning on it, but never got that far.