Technology Report - Examining the Case Against Aaron Swartz

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VOA Learning English, we welcome you to news about . Have you ever had an RSS news feed sent your mobile phone or computer? If so, you have Swartz to thank. He helped develop that Internet publishing when he was 14 years old. He also helped what came to be known as the social news Reddit. But sadly, the 26-year-old Internet activist was found in his apartment in Brooklyn, New York on January His death was called a suicide. Aaron Swartz believed information is knowledge. He believed the Internet should be to make that knowledge available to everyone. This belief what eventually got him in trouble with the law. Swartz was to face a federal trial in April. was accused of using computers at the Massachusetts Institute Technology to download millions of academic documents from JSTOR. could have faced 35 years in prison and as as $1 million in fines. Some people have called charges extreme. Renee Hutchins is a law professor at University of Maryland. She said it is unclear if lawyers had a solid criminal case against Aaron Swartz. said he was basically accused of violating a user with JSTOR, which charges fees to use its huge of research publications. Renee Hutchins says Aaron Swartz had accounts with JSTOR and with MIT, through Harvard University. Court of Appeals ruled that his actions violated user and could be considered criminal. But a recent ruling the Ninth Circuit Court disputed the idea that federal law is meant for that purpose. For VOA Learning , I'm Alex Villarreal. (Adapted from a radio program broadcast

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