One aspect of Aaron Swartz&#x27;s case that I found both interesting and way under-reported, was that he supposedly was going to perform meta-analysis against the collected documents.  And that a previous meta-analysis of a similar sort had revealed some surprising and useful results.<p>With all the pieces locked up, it is difficult if not impossible to do such science and statistical analysis.  In other words, it is antithetical to the nature of science.
I didn&#x27;t see&#x2F;read enough to confirm this, in Schwartz&#x27;s case.  Nonetheless, I think the idea and the opinion are valid.