Computer-database technology developed in the 1970s and 1980s gave advertisers the ability to target individual consumers with their message, bypassing newspapers entirely.

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He was arrested in 2011 and charged in a scheme in which he allegedly logged into the computer network at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and using it to download millions of academic journal articles from a database called JSTOR, owned by a nonprofit group.

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