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Aaron Swartz supporters label MIT report a 'whitewash'
2013-08-01 15:02:25| InfoWorld: Top News
The case of "U.S. vs. Swartz," dating back two years, was doggedly pursued by federal prosecutors who sought jail time against the 26-year-old computer innovator Aaron Swartz for his alleged theft of a massive amount of scholarly articles from the JSTOR database service available through the MIT campus network at the time. Swartz committed suicide in January shortly before his trial was set to begin this year, and his death was a shock that prompted widespread media coverage.
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