Colombian biologist won't go to jail for 8 years for sharing a scientific paper (probably)
by Cory Doctorow from on (#2QP90)
Timothy writes, "Diego Gomez is a Colombian conservation biologist. When he was a college student, he shared a single research paper online so that others could read and learn from it, just as he did. Diego was criminally prosecuted for copyright infringement, and faced up to 8 years in prison." (more")