emptywheel

A lot of this reads like they were mainly downloading paywalled journals (for the university accounts, anyway). Like an international version of the Aaron Swartz case.

You're actually the second person to say that to me. Takes a lot of journals to add up to $3.4B.

DOJ can get pretty creative at inflating dollar damage numbers. If you add up all the grant money that went into the published research you'd probably get there soon enough.

They talk about the cost to "procure and access" the data, but not to create the data, which is odd. I wonder if this is just the sum of the total library budgets at the two universities over all time.

So John Bolton is going to justify his war against Iran because IRGC wanted access to science scholarship?

I'm curious which two universities they're talking about, and what, if anything, other than library stuff, was downloaded. Major universities with at least one SDNY campus include Columbia, NYU, SUNY, CUNY, Cornell, Fordham, etc.

That's why I asked. But it'd HAVE to be more than academic journals--otherwise you wouldn't have to hack 6,000 professors.