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14 Jan 2013, 7:10 am by Jack Newton
This past Friday Aaron Swartz took his own life at the age of 26. [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 6:13 am by Jeralyn
MIT announced it will conduct an internal probe of its role in the events that led to Aaron Swartz' suicide. [read post]
13 Jan 2013, 7:41 pm by Ron Coleman
 A quote from the Swartzes: Aaron’s death is not simply a personal tragedy. [read post]
13 Jan 2013, 3:45 pm by Nathan Mattise
Less than 48 hours after Aaron Swartz's tragic suicide, the institution involved in his high-profile JSTOR incident (that eventually lead to federal charges) has issued a statement. [read post]
13 Jan 2013, 1:36 pm by Ray Beckerman
He returned all of the data, and the organization which was supposedly 'victimized' dropped its charges, and expressed regret that it had ever been drawn into a criminal prosecution in the first place.There is a special place in Hell for the a**holes at MIT who insisted on pursuing this matter, and for the heartless clones in the US Attorney's Office who insisted on seeking 30 years imprisonment.That's what happens in a facist society, where big business owns the government and the… [read post]
13 Jan 2013, 11:43 am by Timothy P. Flynn, Esq.
They didn't exist to you, even as they faced 50 year sentences just like Swartz.Well, we here at the Law Blogger say, RIP young Aaron Swartz. [read post]
13 Jan 2013, 7:47 am
We didn't know who Aaron Swartz was until he killed himself the other day. [read post]
12 Jan 2013, 5:35 pm by Megan Geuss
Coder and information activist Aaron Swartz took his life on Friday, and in the wake of his death the outpouring of grief from the tech community is palpable. [read post]
12 Jan 2013, 4:45 pm by Steve Schultze
Those of you unfamiliar with Aaron Swartz should read Tim Lee’s article, “Internet pioneer and information activist takes his own life”. [read post]
12 Jan 2013, 2:58 pm by Prashant Reddy
Image from hereI had never heard about Aaron Swartz until Swaraj’s post below about his life and suicide. [read post]
12 Jan 2013, 1:00 pm by Cyrus Farivar
Aaron Swartz at the Creative Commons Salon, San Francisco, in 2006. [read post]
12 Jan 2013, 12:29 pm by Swaraj Paul Barooah
See Cory Doctorow's eulogy hereSome of us in India may not have heard of Aaron Swartz, a 26 year old activist who was heavily involved in copyright policy issues and issues surrounding technology freedom. [read post]
12 Jan 2013, 11:58 am
Lawrence Lessig on the suicide of Aaron Swartz (which we've already been talking about here). [read post]
12 Jan 2013, 9:50 am by Buce
Aaron Swartz was little more than a name to me until this morning, when it seemed that everyone in my aggregator was responding to the news that he had committed suicide yesterday, at the age of 26. [read post]
5 Jul 2012, 11:48 pm by Beth Simone Noveck
Reposted from Crooked Timber as part of an Open Data Symposium with Henry Farrell (blogger at Crooked Timber) Steven Berlin Johnson (author of Emergence, Where Good Ideas Come From, and the forthcoming Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age) Tom Lee (director of Sunlight Labs at the Sunlight Foundation) Clay Shirky (author of Here Comes Everybody and Cognitive Surplus_) Tom Slee (author of No-One Makes You Shop at Walmart) Victoria Stodden (assistant professor of statistics at… [read post]
11 Apr 2012, 5:34 am by Peter S. Vogel
Allegedly MIT’s computer systems were breached by Aaron Swartz who then downloaded millions of scholarly articles, but there are no claims of copyrights infringement. [read post]
14 Oct 2011, 8:00 am by Eric
* Aaron Swartz is being prosecuted for a mass download from the JSTOR database [read post]
5 Aug 2011, 1:56 pm by Harold O'Grady
A NY Times article, Open-Access Advocate Is Arrested for Huge Download, reports on the indictment of 24-year-old open access activist Aaron Swartz for theft of more than four million documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and JSTOR, an archive of scientific journals and academic papers. [read post]