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23. The next day, October 9, 2010, Swartz used both the “ghost laptop” and the
“ghost macbook” to systematically and rapidly access and download an extraordinary volume of
articles from JSTOR. The pace was so fast that it brought down some of JSTOR’s computer
servers.

24. In response, JSTOR blocked the entire MIT computer network’s access to JSTOR
for several days, beginning on or about October 9, 2010.
November and December, 2010

25. During November and December, 2010, Swartz used the “ghost laptop” (i.e., the
Acer laptop) at MIT to make over two million downloads from JSTOR. This is more than one
hundred times the number of downloads during the same period by all the legitimate MIT
JSTOR users combined. Of the downloads, approximately half were research articles, with the
remainder being reviews, news, editorials, and miscellaneous documents.

26. This time around, Swartz circumvented MIT’s guest registration process
altogether when he connected to MIT’s computer network. By this point, Swartz was familiar
with the IP addresses available to be assigned at the switch in the restricted network interface
closet in the basement of MIT’s Building 16. Swartz simply hard-wired into the network and
assigned himself two IP addresses. He hid the Acer laptop and a succession of external storage
drives under a box in the closet, so that they would not be obvious to anyone who might enter the
closet.

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