CC3: Aarons Law

The "Aaron's Law" that is being named after the hacker who committed suicide in January is being drafted to eliminate prosecutors tools against users that "exceed authorized content." Zoe Lofgren the representative who drafted this bill first got the foo work from Reddit.

Lofgren, from California, believes almost the same as the hacker group Anonymous in the belief that the sentencing commission was attempting to bargain with Aaron Swartz and with him and lessen his sentience and only jail him for only eight years but also held over his head 13 felonies that would have him imprisoned for at least 50 years.

The point of the bill is to lessen the language used against users that "violate" the amount of allotted content. For those Americans that love reading informational texts, and use the .pdf format, that requires them to download their information from web sites that offer .pdf files. Currently the law states, and enforces a limit on the amount of articles, or newspapers you can download. If you happen to exceed this limit it is punishable by up to eight years in prison depending on the terms and conditions of the web site service that is chosen to be used. If this bill were to get passed it would mean that those using mainly .pdf file format could gather as many articles or stories form the web as they pleased.

To me the thought of the law controlling the amount of information you can have is leaning towards a "black Internet" similar to the one in China that limits every aspect of Internet usage. If Lofgren gets her bill passed it would mean a great leap toward a "more free" Internet. Surprisingly the footing for this bill, and its content is not entirely done by the work of politicians Lofgren first posted her idea to Reddit to gather feedback, after an overwhelming amount of positive thoughts she drafted the bill and re-posted her draft asking for more feedback and ideas.

The thought of Zoe Lofgren posting her bill to Reddt(a site that several thousand teenagers use) and allowing them to send feedback, and suggestions is astounding to me. This shows that some politicians realise the importance of the Internet and the effect it has on teenagers and children and the who backwards the society is when during the day they promote education but when night falls they limit the amount of information you can have.

If you decided to download a book about laws that came from a service site like MIT but there .pdf terms stated that you had a limit on the amount of information you could have. Would you be willing to go to jail if you downloaded one to many files about a topic you had interest in would you still do it?