'Threat of 30 years in jail for downloading PDFs - death sentence for a depressed person'
- 11 years ago
The funeral of freedom of information activist Aaron Swartz has been held in Chicago. The twenty-six year old took his own life last Friday after finding himself boxed in by federal prosecutors and facing decades in jail. All this for illegally downloading academic documents. RT talks more about this with Justin Morton, a software engineer who used to work with J-store - an academic database that was also hacked by Swartz.
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