Aaron Swartz 1986-2013
Aaron Swartz was a brilliant 26-year-old software developer who most recently worked at a company called Thoughtworks, a global software developer, but before that, was well known as a developer of Reddit, the inventor of RSS, and one of the designers of Creative Commons. Aaron committed suicide on Friday, January 11. At the time of his death, Aaron Swartz was under indictment for using MIT access to log into JSTOR, a database of scholarly articles, and downloading those articles with the intent to make them public. If Swartz had been convicted of these charges, he faced more than 30 years in prison.
Video:
Aaron Swartz - a Fighter Against the Privatization of Knowledge
Also - here's how this story links up with the so-called Kim Dotcom saga in New Zealand:
Kim Dotcom
Article (Guardian):
Kim Dotcom
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