'Threat of 30 years in jail for downloading PDFs - death sentence for a depressed person'

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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[belfasta]

HOW CAN ANYBODY DENY THAT THE USA GOVERNMENT ARE A BUNCH OF TERRORISTS

[russianlegionaire]

2:39

Another "suicide" of a hacker from the SAME prosecutors. What the fuck, that automatically should have been a red light to investigate this a lot closer, or to get some mainstream media to question the official story, except infowars of course.

[NIMONIMONIMO333]

I don't know why he didn't upload the stuff. People learn from his death, when you download something, share it as long it's not a virus or spyware that is

[CntthnkO15]

I could spend a legit page explaining it to you, but is it really worth my time? Prove to me it is and I will do it, just for you.

[123PSPs]

I use piratebay, ima a haxor. Doesn't work that way bro

[Dymethaltryptamine]

they are not denying it, but also not doing anything against it

[homunculus123456]

or pirated tons of porn

[terrygand]

It amounts to the Gov trying to control the Internet. It's that simple !

[karloshaman]

have you seen the price of college textbooks? not to mention the cost of tuition fees? it should be a crime

[RWT683]

Nice double bass.

[David Eggers]

Yes, We, the People pay for it, but papers are sold online so we don't have to pay so much.