Some quotes from the official MIT report: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;swartz-report.mit.edu&#x2F;docs&#x2F;report-to-the-president.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;swartz-report.mit.edu&#x2F;docs&#x2F;report-to-the-president.pd...</a><p><i>Typically, when an excessive use
case is reported that is determined to originate from within MIT’s network, the Libraries
report this to either the MIT Information Services and Technology (IS&amp;T) network
security team or MIT’s “Stopit” group, which deals with inappropriate behavior that
occurs electronically. The Stopit group’s general response is to send the offender a
warning email message. This is almost always all that is needed to get people’s attention
and have them stop whatever it was they were doing that caused the problem.</i><p>[...]<p><i>This time, the requests and downloads stimulated a cascade of failures that brought down
multiple JSTOR servers. Half the servers in one data center failed, and JSTOR engineers
feared that the entire service might go down worldwide.</i><p>[...]<p><i>Also on October 12, the Director of the MIT Libraries reported to MIT’s Academic
Council that a cyber-attack of the JSTOR database had caused a weekend shutdown of
JSTOR to the entire campus.</i><p>Now take a look at the &quot;MIT Hacker Ethic&quot;, particularly bulletpoint #2: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hacks.mit.edu&#x2F;misc&#x2F;ethics.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hacks.mit.edu&#x2F;misc&#x2F;ethics.html</a>