> Swartz returned the data This... sounds super fishy. | Hacker News

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		jdiez17 on Jan 13, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JSTOR Statement on Aaron Swartz > Swartz returned the data This... sounds super fishy.

tripzilch on Jan 14, 2013 [–]

Yeah, I wonder what that even means?

You can't "return" data. You can either delete the data, or hand over the media that it's encoded upon.

It reminds me a bit of David Thorne's famous "spider" email exchange http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html (fourth email)

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