None of what Swartz was charged with [1] is anywhere near best practices for an LLM data pipeline.
(Also, he wasn't facing decades in jail. That's from the DoJ press release which uses a completely stupid way of calculating potential sentences [2] that gives very high numbers so it always make it sound like they have caught some super villain).
[1] https://volokh.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-charges/
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20130211030902/https://www.popeh...