http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

I remember this, so sad :x.

tl;dr, what happened?

 

tl;dr, what happened?

 

read it

 

tl;dr, what happened?

 

read it

 

Ok i read it, but i don't understand why he was arrested? 

Ok i read it, but i don't understand why he was arrested?

He broke into a database of electronic textbooks from a website that sells them to students for University. He downloaded them and released millions of pages of these books for free. He was charge for this but I don't know exactly what under but basically he got more years in jail for giving people free education then a child molester.

While in trial he eventually "committed suicide". Regardless of being a huge leader in open source and creative commons, he was successfully working in New York. No reason for him to commit suicide. I read an article about his death and the paper said he had history with depression but another article I read said his parents disagreed.

His parents on live news said the government killed their son. Take it either has literally or metaphorically (the stress of getting 30+ years in jail). It was fucked up and he did a lot of the Internet. He died January 11 2013. I think in February he was placed in the Internet Hall of Fame. People that have contributed great things to the internet are in it.

He's done a lot of stuff and started at a young age too. I think people should know about him.