More than 18,000 academic documents have been copied from an online scholarly archive and posted on Pirate Bay, the file sharing Web site, but questions arose on Friday about where the documents really came from.
A 24 year-old entrepreneur and star programmer has been indicted by the federal authorities in Boston following and accused of hacking into the network of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and making off with millions of pages of copyrighted documents.
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