tl;dr: Aaron Swartz faced 35 years in prison and a $1M fine for downloading 70GB of JSTOR articles for knowledge dissemination, ultimately taking his own life under the pressure. Meanwhile, Meta torrented 80TB of books to train its AI models and faces only a likely minor financial penalty. The author argues this disparity reflects a broken system that punishes public-interest actions while letting corporate piracy for profit go effectively unchecked.