Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

Aaron Swartz was charged with illegally downloading roughly 70 GB of academic articles from JSTOR, facing a potential 35-year prison term, a $1 million fine and asset forfeiture, which led him to commit suicide. In contrast, Meta has harvested about 80 TB of books to train its AI models and, aside from a pending lawsuit, has encountered only minimal legal repercussions.