Add in beaucratical paperwork, a multitude of companies bidding the lowest price to replace said lock and the salaries of the team of people who are going to be spending the next 2 years replacing it and it really starts to add up.
Well, the article does note that the documents were 'returned'...
>The indictment alleges that Swartz, at the time a fellow at Harvard University, intended to distribute the documents on peer-to-peer networks. That did not happen, however, and all the documents have been returned to JSTOR.
Should I infer from this that they were found by the swat team in a bag labeled 'Swag'?