Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Swartz’s Suicide Spurs Outrage at Prosecutors -- Daily Intelligencer

Swartz’s Suicide Spurs Outrage at Prosecutors -- Daily Intelligencer

Political activist Aaron Swartz was charged in 2011 in Boston federal district court with the unauthorized use of MIT's networks to download millions of academic articles from the online archive JSTOR. His suicide last Friday instantly triggered a wave of criticism aimed at prosecutors' alleged overzealousness in the pursuit of criminal charges.

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