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- Swartz committed suicide at the age of 26 while facing the possibility of up to 35 years in prison for the bulk downloading of some 70 gigabytes of academic papers from the JSTOR repository on the MIT campus.
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On January 11th, almost exactly two years from the day he was arrested, Aaron Swartz ended his life by hanging himself in his Brooklyn apartment.
Death, funeral, and memorial gatherings. External videos. Aaron Swartz Memorial at The Great Hall of Cooper Union on YouTube, (transcript) Aaron Swartz Memorial at the Internet Archive on YouTube, (partial transcript) DC Memorial: Darrell Issa, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Alan Grayson on YouTube.
Jan 13, 2013 · Aaron Swartz, a celebrated internet freedom activist and early developer of the website Reddit, has died at 26. The activist and programmer took his life in his New York apartment, a relative...
Jan 13, 2013 · 26-year-old Aaron Swartz died tragically this year amidst threats from federal prosecutors over his involvement with downloading texts from the JSTOR academic collection.
Jan 14, 2013 · A suicide is always a tragedy, but that of 26-year-old Aaron Swartz on Friday has reverberated with particular force across the internet.
Jan 13, 2013 · If Swartz's death plunged his admirers and colleagues into deep mourning, it also activated their fury. Though his suicide had no doubt many causes, Swartz may have come as close as anyone in...
Jan 13, 2013 · Aaron Swartz, a computer programmer and ardent internet activist who played a key role opposing 2011 anti-piracy legislation, was found dead on Friday at age 26. His family confirmed that he...
