RAW THOUGHT RAW NERVE INSIDE THE MIND OF AARON SWARTZ NOT-FOR-PROFIT — THIRD EDITION DISCOVERY PUBLISHER Book Content: Copyright © Aaron Swartz, under BY-NC-SA 4.0 license as stated by Dr Sean B. Palmer. First Edition: 2014, Discovery Publisher Second Edition: July 2016, Discovery Publisher Third Edition: October 2016, Discovery Publisher Author : Aaron Swartz Editor in Chief: Adriano Lucca Discovery Publisher 616 Corporate Way, Suite 2-4933 Valley Cottage, New York, 10989 www.discoverypublisher.com
[email protected] facebook.com/DiscoveryPublisher twitter.com/DiscoveryPB New York • Tokyo • Paris • Hong Kong ABOUT THIS EDITION In October 2014, Discovery Publisher released Raw Thought, Raw Nerve: Inside the Mind of Aaron Swartz. It was then the first publication introducing Aaron Swartz’s lifetime work —see Page 3 for details. In August 2015, the publishing company The New Press, claiming to have legally obtained exclusive copyright from Aaron’s legal IP owner —Dr. Sean B. Palmer— took unlawful steps to shutdown our publication; shortly thereafter, The New Press published a scaled-down version of Raw Thought, Raw Nerve. A similar action was performed shorlty after the release of our second edition. In an article titled “If I get hit by a truck...”, Aaron stated “If I get hit by a truck [...] the contents of all my hard drives [should] be made publicly available”. It should be noted that in all articles published by Aaron on his blog, he never claimed to be against commercial publishing. Aaron was, however, against abusive or restrictive copyright. As such, when the first edition of this book was released, we did not claim exclusive copyright.