VOA慢速英语听力2013年01月（WORD文本）：WERE-THE-CHARGES-AGAINST-AARON-SWARTZ-TOO-EXTREME.doc

1、From VOA Learning English, this is the TECHNOLOGY REPORT in Special English.这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。Have you ever had an RSS news feed sent to your mobile phone or computer? If so, you have Aaron Swartz to thank. He helped develop that Internet publishing technology when he was only 14. He also helped devel

2、op what came to be known as the social news website Reddit.你曾在手机或电脑上用过RSS（简易信息聚合）新闻吗？如果用过，那你要感谢艾伦斯沃兹（Aaron Swartz）。他14岁的时候就帮助开发了这项互联网发布技术，他还帮助开发了后来为我们熟知的社交新闻站点Reddit。The 26-year-old Internet activist was found dead in his Brooklyn, New York apartment on January 11. His death was ruled a suicide.这名26

3、岁的互联网活跃分子1月11日被发现在纽约布鲁克林的公寓中死去，他的死被认定为自杀。Aaron Swartz believed that information is knowledge. He believed the Internet should be used to make that knowledge available to everyone. This belief is what eventually got him in trouble with the law.艾伦斯沃兹（Aaron Swartz）认为信息就是知识，互联网应该用于知识的公共传播，正是这样的信念让他触犯了法律

4、。He was to face a federal trial in April. He was accused of using computers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to download millions of scholarly documents from JSTOR. The online service charges fees to use its huge collection of research publications. Aaron Swarts could have faced 35 years

5、 in prison and as much as $1 million in fines. Some people have called the charges extreme.他本来要在4月份接受联邦审判，他被控使用麻省理工学院（简称MIT）的电脑从JSTOR(西文过刊全文库)下载数百万份学术论文。该网站向用户收费，允许使用其海量收藏的研究论文。艾伦斯沃兹（Aaron Swartz）可能面临被判以35年监禁和100万美元的罚款。有些人认为指控过于极端。Renee Hutchins is a law professor at the University of Maryland.蕾妮哈钦斯

6、（Renee Hutchins）是马里兰大学的法学教授。It is questionable whether or not the prosecution in this case had a solid criminal case against Aaron Swartz. Basically what he is accused of doing is violating a user agreement with JSTOR.“这件案子对艾伦斯沃兹的刑事指控是否确有其事还值得探讨，其实他的指控只是违反了与西文过刊全文库的用户协议。”Professor Hutchins says Mist

7、er Swartz had legal accounts with JSTOR and with MIT, through Harvard University.哈金斯教授表示，艾伦斯沃兹通过哈佛大学在JSTOR和麻省理工大学有着合法账户。It is a really close question whether or not Aaron Swartz use of his Harvard account through the MIT network to JSTOR to download more than he should have legitimately was a crimin

8、al offense.“斯瓦茨使用他的哈佛帐号，通过麻省理工网络进入JSTOR下载了超出他能够合法下载的论文是不是犯罪，这是个非常封闭式的问题。”A Court of Appeals ruled that his actions violated user agreements and could be considered criminal.上诉法庭判决斯沃兹的行为违反了用户协议，可以判定为刑事罪。However, Professor Hutchins notes that a more recent ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court disagreed.然

9、而，哈金斯教授说，第九巡回法庭最近的判决与此不一致。Unknowingly we may all be violating the terms of those agreements every single day, in multiple ways. And what the Ninth Circuit said is thats really not the business of federal criminal statue; thats not what they were going for.“每天我们不知不觉中都会在许多方面违反这些协议的条款。第九巡回法院认为，这确实无关联邦犯

10、罪，这不是他们的目的。”Aaron Swartz family accused the United States Attorneys office of fighting a crime that had, in their words, no victims. And they criticized MIT for refusing to stand up for Aaron.艾伦斯沃兹的家人指控美国美国检察官办公室打击“根本不存在受害者”的犯罪，并指责麻省理工拒绝为斯瓦茨辩护。MIT has called for its own investigation of its involvem

11、ent in the case.麻省理工已经要求就其在此案中的参与情况展开自身调查。More than 40,000 people have signed a petition at the White House website for citizen opinions. It calls for the District Attorney in the case to be removed from office. The District Attorney has said the office acted appropriately in its handling of the case.4万多人在白宫网站的公民意见栏里签名请愿，要求罢免此案地方检察官的职务，而地方检察官曾表示法院处理此案很恰当。*更多资料请访问VOA英语学习网（）*VOA慢速英语新闻听力（VOA Special English），每天更新： VOA常速英语新闻听力（VOA Standard English），每天更新： BBC英语新闻听力，每天更新： CNN英语新闻听力，每天更新： CRI英语新闻听力，每天更新： NPR英语新闻听力，每天更新： AP NEWS英语新闻听力，每天更新：